Setup
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Setup
Optimism has a relatively small number of dependencies, but it does assume that it's being run in a Rails project with ActionCable configured for the environments you intend to operate in. You can easily install Optimism to new and existing Rails projects.
bundle add optimism
yarn add cable_ready
rake optimism:install
The terminal commands above will ensure that Optimism is installed. It creates the client-side websocket channel infrastructure required to process the list of commands from the server. All of this is possible because it's built on the shoulders of the incredible CableReady gem, which gives developers the ability to tweak many different aspects of the current page from the server.
Anyhow... that's it: you're ready to start integrating Optimism into your user interfaces.
Authentication
Out of the box, ActionCable doesn't give Optimism the ability to distinguish between multiple concurrent users looking at the same page.
If you deploy to a host with more than one person accessing your app, you'll find that you're sharing a session and seeing other people's updates. That isn't what most developers have in mind!
When the time comes, it's easy to configure your application to support authenticating users by their Rails session or current_user scope. Just check out the Authentication page and choose your own adventure.
AuthenticationLogging
In the default debug log level, ActionCable emits particularly verbose log messages. You can optionally discard everything but exceptions by switching to the warn log level, as is common in development environments:
# :debug, :info, :warn, :error, :fatal, :unknown
config.log_level = :warn
Troubleshooting
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