Shows how to send a message to a channel on your Angular frontend from anywhere in your Rails app

Rails & Angular Websockets Channel Binding

// ANGULAR: Listen/bind to a channel on the angular side in the Angular controller

$scope.dispatcher = new WebSocketRails(ROUTE_IN_RAILS_FOR_WS);
var channel = $scope.dispatcher.subscribe('motion_detector');
  	
channel.bind('status', function(response) {
  $scope.motionDetectorStatus = response.status
});


# RAILS: Send a message to a channel on the Rails side. You can do this from anywhere in your Rails app
WebsocketRails[:motion_detector].trigger 'status', {status: "No motion currently detected"}