# RTRails now open sourced

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 6, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614 "2006-02-06T18:05:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614/1 "2006-02-06T18:05:16Z")

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Hi, if anyone is interested in HTTP streaming and realtime  
communication:

Our RTRails project is now finished.

I uploaded RTRails to Rubyforge. Here is the project page:  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/rtrails/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/rtrails/)

Here is a video showing two browsers using the app, Safari in Pull mode,  
Firefox in push mode:  
[http://www.uni-weimar.de/~scheffl2/amsterdam/video.php](http://www.uni-weimar.de/~scheffl2/amsterdam/video.php)

Here is a technical paper about the system:  
[http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/1251/314/CooperativeMediaLab\_RP\_Amsterdam\_TechnicalDocumentation.pdf](http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/1251/314/CooperativeMediaLab_RP_Amsterdam_TechnicalDocumentation.pdf)

The live demo is still running at [http://ccml01.medien.uni-weimar.de/](http://ccml01.medien.uni-weimar.de/)

Sorry if something does not work for you, I did not have time to  
optimize the system for every browser out there. Also, it seems to be  
pretty slow under Firefox, DIV handling complexity seems to rise  
nonlinear, so many windows=\>slow.

It seems that the rubyforge mirroring system does not work so great,  
please use CVS checkout if you want to get the source.

Cheers,  
Martin

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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614/2 "2006-02-06T19:26:09Z")

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Martin,

I enjoyed testing the demo application and reading the whitepaper.  
Thanks  
for sharing.

Hammed

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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614/3 "2006-02-06T19:51:08Z")

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Martin-

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Very cool demo. I am in need of something like this already so i

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will test it and give feedback once I get familiar with it.

Nice job-  
-Ezra

On Feb 6, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Martin S. wrote:

> Firefox in push mode:  
> optimize the system for every browser out there. Also, it seems to be
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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614/4 "2006-02-06T19:54:17Z")

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I can’t download the files from rubyforge, I get a 404 error.

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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rtrails-now-open-sourced/101614/5 "2006-02-06T20:22:15Z")

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This looks awesome Martin… I was about to start researching something  
similar to this. Very cool!

Thank you for being so generous.

- Matt