Gilbert is a project mainly written in JAVASCRIPT and RUBY, it's free.
Rails + Juggernaut (node.js + socket.io) + Redis + MySQL
== Gilbert
This is a very simple experiment to see what it would be like to use juggernaut for real-time updates to comments on articles. It's contrived, but that's ok, it's an experiment afterall.
= Requirements
= Do it now
Make sure you have all of the git submodules in place: $ git submodule update --init --recursive
First time setup: $ rake db:create db:reset
Start the websockets evented server: $ cd juggernaut && node server.js
Start the rails application: $ unicorn -p 3000
Check out the applicaiton: Open http://localhost:3000/articles/1 in multiple browsers and start adding comments.