Action Cable Client VS AnyCable

Compare Action Cable Client vs AnyCable and see what are their differences.

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Action Cable Client AnyCable
1 12
257 1,878
- 1.2%
0.0 7.5
4 months ago 26 days ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Action Cable Client

Posts with mentions or reviews of Action Cable Client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.
  • Rails web socket server with external web socket client (also in Ruby)
    2 projects | /r/rails | 14 Oct 2022
    Keep in mind that ActionCable implements its own JSON-based payload structure on top of web sockets. So you would need to build something on top of the basic web socket package to be able to exchange messages with a Rails backend. A quick google suggests there are a couple of ruby-based projects that have done that. You might check out action-cable-client, which doesn't look particularly maintained, but might give you a place to start.

AnyCable

Posts with mentions or reviews of AnyCable. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-10.
  • Stream Updates to Your Users with LiteCable for Ruby on Rails
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2024
    LiteCable is tailored for vertical scaling by a tight integration of components. If you extract maximum performance from the SQLite engine, the limits of this approach are pushed a lot further. Once you observe that your latencies start to explode, though, I would suggest researching options like AnyCable, which inherently provide better strategies for horizontal scaling.
  • Show HN: AnyCable – real-time for Next.js, open source alternative to PaaS
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
  • Deploy Anycable with MRSK
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2023
    Here we'll deploy Anycable wih MRSK.
  • Using Tailscale on Lambda for a Live Development Proxy
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Jun 2023
    So far, everything is working great with our new LambdaCable gem. Eventually it will be a drop-in adapter for ActionCable and join the ranks of other popular alternatives like AnyCable. To bring the project to completion faster, I needed feedback loops that were much faster than deploying code to the cloud. I needed a development proxy! One where my Rails application would receive events from both Lambda's Function URLs and the WebSocket events from API Gateway. Illustrated below with a demo video.
  • AnyCable v1.3: embedded NATS, StatsD, and more
    1 project | /r/ruby | 1 Mar 2023
    AnyCable v1.3 has been just released. The major highlights are:
  • Faster RuboCop runs for Rails apps
    4 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2022
    I've been using this technique for a long time for gems development—to speed up CI RuboCop runs (by installing only the linter dependencies). Here is my typical rubocop.gemfile:
  • Any performance/memory issue with Ruby 3.x compared to 2.7?
    7 projects | /r/ruby | 30 Mar 2022
    It does, but the precompiled binaries are only for < 3.1: https://rubygems.org/gems/grpc/versions/1.43.1-x86-linux
  • Action cable or AJAX? Performance and solution - what to choose?
    1 project | /r/rails | 26 Mar 2022
    Action cable is probably what you're looking for. If you start having performance issues, AnyCable is a more performatic option that requires almost no changes in your ruby code.
  • Kubing Rails: stressless Kubernetes deployments with Kuby
    2 projects | /r/ruby | 30 Nov 2021
    I decided to give it a try for the AnyCable demo application, which requires deploying not only a Rails app, but also additional services for AnyCable.
  • Async Ruby
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2021
    I think what's being talked about here is the back end implementation for ActionCable. By default it uses ruby threads to push over open web sockets. There's at least one production quality drop in implementation (https://anycable.io/) that address the default scalability issues you'll have with ActionCable. The async support would seem to allow one to go much further with default rails before needing to move to something more performant.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Action Cable Client and AnyCable you can also consider the following projects:

Faye - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web

Websocket-Rails - Plug and play websocket support for ruby on rails.

Firehose - Build realtime Ruby web applications. Created by the fine folks at Poll Everywhere.

anycable-go - AnyCable real-time server

Slanger - Open Pusher implementation compatible with Pusher libraries

Rails Realtime - Adding Real-Time To Your RESTful Rails App

WebPush - webpush, Encryption Utilities for Web Push protocol

falcon - A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.

Sync - Real-time Rails Partials