Video Chat in Rails 3

Gems used:

gem ‘raydash’, ‘2.1.0’
 
      gem ‘jquery-rails’

step 1 :

First generate a new rails project by typing rails new Demo_apps.

step 2:

Inside Your gem file add the raydash gem. You can check the version from rubygems.org.

Step 3:

Go to http://www.raydash.com/ and generate Your user_id, and secret.

Step 4:

Configure Demo_apps with your user_id and secret with the command:

rails g raydash:install [userid] [secret]  

or you can directly go to config/initilizer and create a raydash.rb file

and add your credentials there.

Step 5:   

Create an suitable controller and add this

@token = Raydash.getToken()

Step 6:     

for the view page write this

Where, @token specifies the token we are connecting to, and “stream” are div id.

If You want to add video record just add one more line in the view file

where @token is the token generated for you and “record” is the div size  and you can

specify its height width also.

Step 7:

You can customize and add javascript to change video quality and div size.

Step 8:

To start video streaming make the create a next link to the view page.

For the same add a controller action like this.

def next()
 
               Raydash.changeStreamRand(session_token,
 
              :active =>true,:twoWay=>true,
 
              :custom_Group=>'Your_group')
 
               render :json => {:ok => true }
 
           end

If u want a group chat like video chat and want to switch between different users use this function
Raydash.changeStreamNext() instead of  Raydash.changeStreamRand ()

Step 9:

In Application.html.erb in the header write this code

Step 10:

Make sure You have flash 11 or higher vershon installed. And your browser

must be compatible of doing video chat. And rails version must be greater than 3.

References : https://github.com/gersh/Raydash-Ruby-on-Rails/blob/master/Readme