Cannot get Action Cable to output to console log - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am simply trying to get rails to output to the console log. Here is what I have so far:
cable.yml
development:
adapter: redis
url: redis://localhost:6379/1
test:
adapter: redis
url: redis://localhost:6379/1
production:
adapter: redis
url: redis://localhost:6379/1
channel_prefix: enhanced_slack_ui_production
activity_channel.js
import consumer from "./consumer"
consumer.subscriptions.create("ActivityChannel", {
connected() {
console.log("testing");
},
disconnected() {
// Called when the subscription has been terminated by the server
},
received(data) {
// Called when there's incoming data on the websocket for this channel
}
});
activity_channel.rb
class ActivityChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel
def subscribed
stream_from "activity_channel"
end
def unsubscribed
# Any cleanup needed when channel is unsubscribed
end
end
I am on mac and ran brew install redis, added gem "redis" to the gem file under bootsnap.
Ran bundle install and bundle update. restarted both the redis server and rails server many times but when I visit my homepage (its local so can't share it) nothing shows up in the console. No errors just nothing.
The only setting I see in my development.rb file is: config.action_cable.disable_request_forgery_protection = true
Tried commenting that in and out, makes no difference.
Running rails 6.14
I checked several tutorials and the steps are always the same so I think my code is good but maybe I am missing something. If not how can I troubleshoot this to figure out why its not connection, any config files or settings that might block it or something like that?
I am trying to make my app update when it detects a push event from slack API so went with this approach, will consider alternative suggestions if there is no solution to this method.
Adding additional info:
I noticed on other videos when they startup their server there is a GET log releated to action cable and in the network tab they see cable as an entry. I have neither of those. This is all that shows on my logs after restarting the server.
[StatsD] EnhancedSlackUi.request_time:43|d|#controller:home,action:index,request_method:GET,request_format:text/html,response_code:200,response_type:2xx,environment:development
[StatsD] EnhancedSlackUi.request_time:3|d|#response_code:200,response_type:2xx,environment:development
Then I load the root page and it does show a message about the broadcast message. Nothing about the logging on activity_channel.js though.
Started GET "/" for 192.168.64.1 at 2021-07-24 10:03:05 +0100
Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
[ActionCable] Broadcasting to activity_channel: 2021-07-24 10:03:05.458896 +0100
[StatsD] company_metrics.client.redis.query_count:1|c|#namespace:project-name,environment:development
Rendering home/index.html.erb
ChannelPost Load (4.2ms) SELECT `channel_posts`.* FROM `channel_posts` WHERE `channel_posts`.`interaction_closed` = FALSE
↳ app/views/home/index.html.erb:254
ChannelPost Load (3.1ms) SELECT `channel_posts`.* FROM `channel_posts` WHERE `channel_posts`.`interaction_closed` = TRUE
↳ app/views/home/index.html.erb:271
ThreadMessage Load (3.5ms) SELECT `thread_messages`.* FROM `thread_messages` WHERE `thread_messages`.`thread_ts` = '1627075058.000200'
↳ app/views/home/index.html.erb:318
Rendered home/index.html.erb (Duration: 126.5ms | Allocations: 2820)
Completed 200 OK in 143ms (Views: 131.4ms | ActiveRecord: 16.1ms | Allocations: 3405)
My connection.rb file contents
# typed: strict
# frozen_string_literal: true
module ApplicationCable
class Connection < ActionCable::Connection::Base
end
end
My route file is here:
# typed: strict
# frozen_string_literal: true
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root "home#index"
get "home/index"
post "/events", to: "slack#events"
# For details on the DSL available within this file, see https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
post "/graphql", to: "graphql#execute"
end
And my home controller is here:
# typed: true
# frozen_string_literal: true
require "date"
class HomeController < ApplicationController
def index
#open = ChannelPost.where(interaction_closed: 0)
#closed = ChannelPost.where(interaction_closed: 1)
#threads = ThreadMessage.where(thread_ts: "1627075058.000200")
ActionCable.server.broadcast('activity_channel', Time.now)
end
def format_date(date)
#new_date = date.strftime("%I:%M%p")
end
helper_method :format_date
end
The page I am trying to look for the broadcast message is on root which is home/index
One other thing, I am using a dev environment so instead of localhost I access the pages with a customized url i.e my_project_name.mycompany.com
In my hosts file I have this:
192.168.64.243 my_project_name.railgun
192.168.64.243 my_project_name.mycompany.com
I also see this in my hosts:
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
When I startup my server it shows:
Running /Users/mypath/project-name/bin/rails server -b 192.168.64.1 -p 53835 from dev.yml
* Listening on http://192.168.64.1:53835
Use Ctrl-C to stop
[warmup] Ready to accept requests: 0.0.0.0:8081
[asset server] Serving assets from:
• http://192.168.64.254:53835
Then further down:
[warmup] Destroyed all connections
[sewing-kit] Your app is accessible at https://project-name.companyname.com (Ctrl-T to open link in browser)
[warmup] Closed listener
[server] Running with latest changes
started react-server on 0.0.0.0:8081