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Special technology needed for browser based chat?

On this post, I read about the usage of XMPP. Is this sort of thing necessary, and more importantly, my main question expanded: Can a chat server and client be built efficiently using only standard HTTP and browser technologies (such as PHP and JS, or RoR and JS, etc)? Or, is it best to stick with old protocols like XMPP find a way to in...

Adding post commits to Rails application?

Hi Everyone, I am using the following gem in my rails application: http://github.com/fnando/post_commit I am trying to learn how to send data to service providers such as Campfire on creation of a record in my application. Using Campfire as a test I have the following in my kase.rb model: # Campfire post_commit :campfire do author...