Ruby websocket client for websocket-rails gem - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am developing a rails webpage which need to use websocket functionality to communicate with an external ruby client. In order to do this, I am using the websocket-rails gem in the rails server, definning the client_connected client_disconnected event and a specific action to received the messages from the client (new_message).
On the client side I have tried to use different ruby gems like faye-websocket-ruby and websocket-client-simple but I always obtain errors when I try to send a message. On the server I can't find the way to process these messages. Both gems has a send method with only accepts a string (not being able to specify the name of the event)
The code that I have been using is the following:
Server side
app/controllers/chat_controller.rb
class ChatController < WebsocketRails::BaseController
def new_message
puts ')'*40
end
def client_connected
puts '-'*40
end
def client_disconnected
puts '&'*40
end
end
config/events.rb
WebsocketRails::EventMap.describe do
subscribe :client_connected, :to => ChatController, :with_method => :client_connected
subscribe :message, :to => ChatController, :with_method => :new_message
subscribe :client_disconnected, :to => ChatController, :with_method => :client_disconnected
end
config/initializers/websocket_rails.rb
WebsocketRails.setup do |config|
config.log_path = "#{Rails.root}/log/websocket_rails.log"
config.log_internal_events = true
config.synchronize = false
end
Client side
websocket-client-simple
require 'rubygems'
require 'websocket-client-simple'
ws = WebSocket::Client::Simple.connect 'ws://localhost:3000/websocket'
ws.on :message do |msg|
puts msg.data
end
ws.on :new_message do
hash = { channel: 'example' }
ws.send hash
end
ws.on :close do |e|
p e
exit 1
end
ws.on :error do |e|
p e
end
hash = { channel: 'Example', message: 'Example' }
ws.send 'new_message', hash
loop do
ws.send STDIN.gets.strip
end
faye-websocket
require 'faye/websocket'
require 'eventmachine'
EM.run {
ws = Faye::WebSocket::Client.new('ws://localhost:3000/websocket')
ws.on :open do |event|
p [:open]
end
ws.on :message do |event|
p [:message, event.data]
end
ws.on :close do |event|
p [:close, event.code, event.reason]
ws = nil
end
ws.send( 'Example Text' )
}
Thanks in advance. Regards.
PD: Let me know if you need more code.

Answer 1

Finally I have found the solution. The problem was that the message needs to be constructed with a certain format in order to be understood by websocket-rails.
Example: ws.send( '["new_message",{"data":"Example message"}]' )
where new_message is the event which websocket-rails is listening to.