anycable-rack-server

AnyCable-compatible Rack hijack based Ruby Web Socket server designed for development and testing purposes.

Using with Rack

# Initialize server instance first.
ws_server = AnyCable::Rack::Server.new

app = Rack::Builder.new do
  map "/cable" do
    run ws_server
  end
end

# NOTE: don't forget to call `start!` method
ws_server.start!

run app

Usage with Rails

Add gem "anycable-rack-server" to you Gemfile and make sure your Action Cable adapter is set to :any_cable. That's it! We automatically start AnyCable Rack server for you at /cable path.

Configuration

AnyCable Rack Server uses anyway_config gem for configuration; thus it is possible to set configuration parameters through environment vars (prefixed with ANYCABLE_), config/anycable.yml file or secrets.yml when using Rails.

NOTE: AnyCable Rack Server uses the same config name (i.e., env prefix, YML file name, etc.) as AnyCable itself.

You can pass a config object as the option to AnyCable::Rack::Server.new:

server = AnyCable::Server::Rack.new(config: AnyCable::Rack::Config.new(**params))

If no config is passed, a default, global, configuration would be used (AnyCable::Rack.config).

When using Rails, config.anycable_rack points to AnyCable::Rack.config.

Headers

You can customize the headers being sent with each gRPC request.

Default headers: 'cookie', 'x-api-token'.

Can be specified via configuration:

AnyCable::Rack.config.headers = ["cookie", "x-my-header"]

Or in Rails:

# <environment>.rb
config.any_cable_rack.headers = %w[cookie]

Rails-specific options

# Mount WebSocket server at the specified path
config.any_cable_rack.mount_path = "/cable"
# NOTE: here we specify only the port (we assume that a server is running locally)
config.any_cable_rack.rpc_port = 50051

Broadcast adapters

AnyCable Rack supports Redis (default) and HTTP broadcast adapters (see the documentation).

Broadcast adapter is inherited from AnyCable configuration (so, you don't need to configure it twice).

Using HTTP broadcast adapter

With Rack

AnyCable::Rack.config.broadast_adapter = :http

ws_server = AnyCable::Rack::Server

app = Rack::Builder.new do
  map "/cable" do
    run ws_server
  end

  map "/_anycable_rack_broadcast" do
    run ws_server.broadcast
  end
end

With Rails

By default, we mount broadcasts endpoint at /_anycable_rack_broadcast.

You can change this setting:

config.any_cable_rack.http_broadcast_path = "/_my_broadcast"

NOTE: Don't forget to configure http_broadcast_url for AnyCable pointing to your web server and the specified broadcast path.

Testing

Run units with bundle exec rake.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/anycable/anycable-rack-server.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.