It’s Christmas time 🎄 and what could be nicer than programming a Christmas tree in C with lights that fade in and out?. Or just talk about trees. We love trees 😄. Here’s what we’ll do:

WebSockets is a beautiful way to allow the client-server communication using a persistent bidirectional channel without the client having to poll the server. In this article I’d like to explain how to get started with websocket in Ruby on Rails from a generic application. I wont’ dive into what is…

Context: a PHP server and a MySQL database. This is a very common setup. You’ve to create a PHP script that interact with that database, but you’ve no access to the server because only script from localhost works due to firewall security restriction for example. Problem: To test your script…