Action Cable & WebSocket Patterns

About

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for integrating Action Cable into Rails projects, focusing on enterprise-grade patterns for real-time features. It guides developers through critical security practices like mandatory authorization in subscriptions, ensures data integrity via persistence-first broadcasting, and offers templates for complex scenarios such as presence tracking, model-based streams, and multi-client synchronization. Whether building a collaborative editor or a live notification system, this skill ensures WebSocket implementations are scalable, secure, and idiomatic.

Key Features

• Type-safe model-based streams using stream_for patterns
• Persistence-focused broadcasting strategies to prevent data loss
• Standardized client-side JavaScript/TypeScript consumer integration
• 2 GitHub stars
• Advanced presence tracking with Redis-backed heartbeat implementation
• Security-first channel authorization and connection templates

Use Cases

• Implementing live notification systems, activity feeds, and presence tracking
• Building real-time chat applications and collaborative editing environments
• Creating dynamic dashboards with real-time analytics and model-sync updates