I'd want to implement a Real-time chat for my Rails app but I can't really host the server which handles the sockets. I've tried Faye but it needs a server. I've also heard of pusher but it's limited to 20 users at a time on the chat and I can't really be sure they won't be more.I've thought of IRC but I think I can't really embed it into a rails app, maybe it needs sockets...How can I implement a real-time chat without owning a server?
Real-time chat in Ruby on Rails without owning a server
ruby on rails;real time;chat
You can't implement real-time chat without having a server capable of coordinating it in real time. Typical shared host web server setups are not suitable for this sort of thing -- they usually don't have the right sorts of things installed and typically don't have the umph to handle the traffic in any case. So typically you'll need to secure at least your own VPS especially if you care about performance and reliability.