Webmate

Webmate is a fully asynchronous real-time web application framework in Ruby. It is built using EventMachine and WebSockets. Webmate primarily designed for providing full-duplex bi-directional communication.

Why Webmate?

Webmate provides high-level api to create applications based on Websocket. Instead of separating code to http/websocket, you write one code, which may work using http or websocket (or both).

Sample:

Webmate::Application.define_routes do
  resources :tasks, transport: [:http, :WS]
end

This simple route will allow you create, update, delete tasks using ONE websocket connection.

Quick start

1. Install Webmate gem

$ gem install webmate

2. Run Webmate server

$ webmate server

3. Run Webmate console

$ webmate console

4. Show available routes

$ rake routes

Tutorial

Webmate Application Skeleton

Skeleton

Gemfile

gem 'webmate'
gem 'slim'
gem 'sass'
gem 'rake'
gem 'webmate-sprockets'
gem 'webmate-client'

config.ru

require './config/environment'
if configatron.assets.compile
  map '/assets' do
    run Sinatra::Sprockets.environment
  end
end
run Webmate::Application

config/config.rb

Webmate::Application.configure do |config|
  # add directory to application load paths
  #config.app.load_paths << ["app/uploaders"]
  config.app.cache_classes = true
  config.assets.compile = false

  config.websockets.namespace = 'api'
  config.websockets.enabled = true
  config.websockets.port = 9020
end

Webmate::Application.configure(:development) do |config|
  config.app.cache_classes = false
  config.assets.compile = true
  config.websockets.port = 3503
end

config/environment.rb

WEBMATE_ROOT = File.expand_path('.')
require 'webmate'

Hello world

1. Adding routes

# app/routes/homepage_routes.rb
Webmate::Application.define_routes do
  get '/', to: 'pages#index', transport: [:http]
end

2. Adding responder for this route

# app/responders/base_reponder.rb
class BaseResponder < Webmate::Responders::Base
  # Available options
  # before_filter :do_something

  rescue_from Webmate::Responders::ActionNotFound do
    render_not_found
  end
end

# app/responders/pages_reponder.rb
class PagesResponder < BaseResponder
  include Webmate::Responders::Templates

  def index
    slim :index, layout: 'application'
  end
end

# app/views/layouts/application.html.slim

div
  == yield

# app/views/pages/index.html.slim

Hello World!

3. MongoDB connection

# config/mongoid.yml
development:
  sessions:
    default:
      database: deex_example
      hosts:
        - localhost:27017

# config/initializers/mongoid.rb
Mongoid.load!(File.join(Webmate.root, 'config', 'mongoid.yml'))

4. Models

# app/models/project.rb
class Project
  include Mongoid::Document

  field :name
  field :description
  field :status
end

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Licenced under MIT.

Thanks for using Webmate!

Hope, you'll enjoy Webmate!

Cheers, Droid Labs.