Beginning Rails 6: From Novice to Professional

© Brady Somerville, Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr and Rida Al Barazi 2020

B. Somerville et al.Beginning Rails 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5716-6_15

15. Action Cable

Brady Somerville¹ , Adam Gamble², Cloves Carneiro Jr.³ and Rida Al Barazi⁴

(1)

Bowling Green, KY, USA

(2)

Gardendale, AL, USA

(3)

Hollywood, FL, USA

(4)

FONTHILL, ON, Canada

 

Introduction

The backbone of web development has been—and still is—the traditional request cycle; the client makes an HTTP request, and the server handles the request by performing some action and returning an HTTP response. In the context of a browser-based application, a human being is usually the initiator of this cycle, by clicking a link or submitting a form, for example.

Over time, though, web applications ...