Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2

20 Server Push with Juggernaut

Goal

You need your Rails server to send, in real time, a notification to one specific user, a group of users, or to all connected users.

Solution

Use the Juggernaut Rails plug-in together with the XMLSocket provided by Flex framework to allow the Rails server to send a notification to your Flex application.

Push Technology

For a brief definition of the concept of push technology, consider this one from Wikipedia:

Push technology on the Internet refers to a style of communication protocol where the request for a given transaction originates with the publisher, or central server. It is contrasted with pull technology, where the request for the transmission of information originates with the ...