This is a simple real-time chat application featuring public chatroom where Bob bot, a message responder, lives and private messaging to user.
This application use Action Cable for real-time messaging and Vue.js for frontend chat view interface.
Bot bot is a message responder bot that reply with canned responses as follow:
- Bob answers 'Sure.' if you ask him a question.
- He answers 'Woah, chill out!' if you yell at him (ALL CAPS).
- He says 'Fine. Be that way!' if you address him without actually saying anything.
- He answers 'Whatever.' to anything else.
BobBot class can be found at lib/bob_bot.rb. It uses Visitor pattern to decide which response to give instead of hard-coded using condition expressions (if, unless or case).
A public chatroom does not require user to login to use. When joining a numbered username (e.g. User1234) w 6F68 ill be assigned the browser session and messages send by the user will be prefixed with the assigned username (e.g. User1234: hello).
Bob bot is listening to public chatroom and will respond to any message sent to the chatroom.
A private conversation requires login and allows for user to user messaging. A user can also send private message to Bot bot.
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/lchanmann/chat_app.git
cd chat_app
Install dependencies
bundle install
yarn install
Setup database
rake db:setup
Compile client app
bin/webpack
Run server app
rails s
All tests can be found in spec directory.
To run all server-side tests in models, lib, channels and controllers, run:
rspec
To run client-side tests in javascript, run:
yarn test