# Chats

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chats/74996>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chats/74996 "2006-11-07T11:05:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newbee-robert)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chats/74996/1 "2006-11-07T11:05:33Z")

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I’m looking for an extension/plugin/whatever you call it (I’m new to  
rails) to implement into rails. i want a chat that probly will be  
reinventing the wheel- though of course I’d love to grab code similar  
to lingr or moreso campfire but I don’t see that type of project in  
works by anyone else, looks like they gave up and said use lingr or  
campfire for their purposes.

Currently I use lace but the ajax is too slow and requires too much  
server talk and it goes into overflow- whereas all the ruby  
implementations i’ve seen are incredible and allow for scalability of  
larger groups of people! (more than 7 unlike lace that starts  
getting clunky). Sure it’d be great if i could offer the ability to  
connect through existing chat plugins such as jabber/irc/google/etc.  
But baby steps- I just need an initial chat to start off with that is  
similar to campfire/lingr as that’s my approach that I’m wanting to  
take and add customization after that.

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**Author:** ![newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/dbc845/32.png) [@newbee-robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newbee-robert)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/chats/74996/2 "2006-11-07T11:06:18Z")

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Robert McCorkle wrote:

> larger groups of people! (more than 7 unlike lace that starts getting  
> clunky). Sure it’d be great if i could offer the ability to connect  
> through existing chat plugins such as jabber/irc/google/etc. But baby  
> steps- I just need an initial chat to start off with that is similar  
> to campfire/lingr as that’s my approach that I’m wanting to take and  
> add customization after that.

This list is a general Ruby mailing list. The Ruby On Rails list is a  
Google G. list: [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk). I’m  
pretty sure there’ll be a whole lot of folks on that list who can help.  
Good luck!