faye/faye-websocket-ruby

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1059 stars · 95 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby library providing standards-compliant WebSocket client and server implementations, extracted from the Faye project. It integrates with Rack applications to handle WebSocket and EventSource (server-sent events) connections within existing web servers like Puma, Thin, and Passenger.

Use cases

• add websocket support to a rack app
• build a websocket echo server in ruby
• handle server-sent events in ruby
• implement real-time push notifications over http
• write a websocket client in ruby
• stream live updates to browsers without websockets

When to choose

• you need WebSocket or EventSource handling inside an existing Rack-based Ruby application
• you want a minimal, standards-compliant implementation without extra abstractions
• you use Puma, Thin, Passenger, Goliath, or any rack.hijack-compatible server

When to avoid

• you need a standalone WebSocket server rather than Rack integration
• you use a Ruby web server that does not support rack.hijack
• you want a higher-level realtime framework with channels and reconnection built in

Facets

library · maturity stable

websocket http-server middleware web-development backend apis ruby eventsource server-sent-events rack real-time-messaging real-time

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