Rails 5 Action Cable

Outline
Texas Holdem using Rails 5 action Cable

Intro

* Excited about Rails five's new feature action cable
* What it does
  Action cable allows you to integrate websockets into your rails app for real time updates
  Most examples are of chat applications. Wouldn't it be cool to have a poker app that updates in realtime 
  when other players take actions?
* Some of the challenges
  Some of the challenges to Rails five action cable is that it is difficult to find support for troubleshooting. 
  Becuase it is such a new technology, there are not a lot of stack overflows or instructions on how to dig deeper than a chat app.
  When I would google issues I ran into, I would keep getting the same top ten links, which were essentially action cable tutorial's of chat apps.
  Coffee script also presented a bit of a challenge since I had never used it before this, but it is similar enought to JavaScript
  that if one knows JavaScript, one shouldn't have too much trouble with CoffeeScript.
  The main challenge I've had, however, is feature testing. I still have not figured out how to feature test with the web sockets
  which is like flying blind. I have to test a lot of the features simply by opening the browser and clicking 
  around whenever I make a change.
  
Concluding thoughts
  * Action Cable is an awesome technology that is much easier to work with (in my experience) than building websockets in node.
  * Action Cable has the benefit of keeping the server side and client side together in one application; thereby, minimizing the
    overhead of maintaining two separate applications the interact. 
  * ActionCable is currently my first choice for building websockets in future.