YAK

An in-progress clone of the popular app Slack.
You can view the site here!

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails

• React

• Redux

• Websockets (ActionCable)

• PostgreSQL Database

Features

• Real-time chat

class MessageBroadcastJob < ApplicationJob
  queue_as :default

  def perform(message)
    ActionCable.server.broadcast "room_channel", message: render_message(message)
  end

  private
    def render_message(message)
      ApplicationController.renderer.render(partial: 'api/messages/message', locals: { message: message })
    end
end

• Channels

• Multi-person direct messaging