Setup PrivatePub or Faye on heroku

In this post I am  going to show how to setup private_pub server on heroku. Private Pub gem is a very nice solution for pushing real time data and it’s open-source . For using the private_pub gem we have to create two application on heroku. First one for our rails app and second one for private_pub server.

Folder structure for private_pub server application is like the below one

fayeserver

config ———–> private_pub.yml
                            application.rb
                            boot.rb
script ————> rails

Gemfile

Gemfile.lock

Procfile

private_pub.ru

Note: bold represent folder and other represent file.

“private_pub.yml” and “private_pub.ru” are created by private_pub gem using rails g private_pub:install

Gemfile has following gems

source ‘https://rubygems.org ‘
    gem ‘rails’,’3.2.12′
    gem ‘private_pub’
    gem ‘thin’
    gem ‘foreman’
After adding the gem ,  bundle it. Then run “rails g private_pub:install”.
Initialize the repository by git init.
After that create a heroku app using “heroku apps:create fayserver”. I am using app name as “fayserver” but it can be changed.
Then change the private_pub.yml file content to
production:
  secret_token: “batkaro”
  signature_expiration: 86400 # one day
After that commit the code and push the code to heroku .
Now finally  we are ready to  use it. 🙂

You can checkout my github repository for fayserver code

16 thoughts on “Setup PrivatePub or Faye on heroku”

  1. Hi there.. I wanted to thank you for this guide. I haven’t found anyone else trying to explain this process online, so I appreciate it. However, I am having trouble getting it to work. I have created a blank directory and set up a Gemfile with the contents you provide. Bundler works fine, but then when I type “rails g private_pub:install”, Rails just outputs its help text. Is there something I need to do with the directory to have it enable the proper use of the ‘rails’ command? I have never tried to use the ‘rails’ command outside of a rails app before, so I’m a little lost. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  4. Hi,

    Thanks so much for your tutorial. It has been really helpful.

    I’ve successfully set up the fayeserver on another Heroku app, but when I try to access the fayserver (eg. faye.herokuapp.com) from my rails app (app.herokuapp.com), I get a cross origin access not allowed error. I’m guessing that because the 2 domains were different, so I got the error.

    Has this happened to you? Do you know how I can resolve this?

    Thanks

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    • Thanks again. I actually cloned your fayeserver repo and just changed the secret key.

      My rails app is a pretty default setup (sorry, it was hosted on a private repo :() I made sure all the configs matched your files as well…

      Thanks for your help,
      Henry

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      • Oh, so silly of me. I forgot to add and commit a file that I changed for the token.
        Not it works 100%.

        I’m really sorry and thanks for all your help. The cross origin was really misleading.

        Thanks!
        Henry

  6. Thanks for your help.

    Although the fayeserer works, I sometimes still get “is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.” on Chrome. Not sure why that is the case, but it works. Hopefully it won’t affect functionality…

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  7. Hello,

    My chat application working my on local system.Buy when i deployed it on heroku it creating problem.I have done all set-up on heroku. I tried it with both url : http://ramfayeserver.herokuapp.com/faye and my own application http://fayeserver.herokuapp.com/faye.but couldn’t get success.I noticed that both url faye.js content changed.Is there is an issue.

    I have also changed faye version with ‘0.8.8’.

    When I try to send message with console I am getting blank array please see details:

    curl http://fayeserver.herokuapp.com/faye -d ‘message={“channel”:”/messages/new”, “data”:”hello”, “ext”:”{‘private_pub_token’:’batkaro’}”}’
    result : [ ]

    I am using same secret_token like example.

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