Publishing to Faye using Redis Engine from Rails, without mounting a Faye server

gistfile1.rb

require 'eventmachine'
require 'faye'
require 'faye/redis'

client = Faye::Client.new(Faye::Server.new({
  engine: {
    type: Faye::Redis
    # non-default redis connection config here
  }
}))

Thread.new { EM.run } unless EM.reactor_running?
Thread.pass until EM.reactor_running?

EventMachine.next_tick {
  client.publish('/some/channel', { data: 'here' })
}