# Rails messaging system

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-messaging-system/174059>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 20, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-messaging-system/174059 "2009-08-20T07:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twittwit)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-messaging-system/174059/1 "2009-08-20T07:56:37Z")

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hi all,

i want to build a messaging system for my rails application.

i search the web and only found a rail 2.0.3 example.http://  
[www.novawave.net/public/rails\_messaging\_tutorial.html](http://www.novawave.net/public/rails_messaging_tutorial.html)  
is there any latest example and care to share it with me?

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twittwit)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-messaging-system/174059/2 "2009-08-20T23:42:36Z")

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I’ve used the restful\_ezm plugin, which generates a fairly basic  
messaging system. You’ll still need to do some customization, but it’s  
a decent place to start. My version (updated to behave with Rails 2.3)  
is on Github at

[http://github.com/al2o3cr/restful\_ezm/tree](http://github.com/al2o3cr/restful_ezm/tree)

–Matt J.

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**Author:** ![twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@twittwit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/twittwit)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-messaging-system/174059/3 "2009-08-22T12:44:40Z")

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ok thanks matt.  
checking this out now. 🙂