Action Messenger

19 May 2006 | 7

I’ve been playing with Action Messenger lately. It’s pretty nice — it doesn’t do quite everything I want, since it was built with notification, rather than chat, in mind. But, it’s a good base, and satisfies my desires to play with Jabber in Ruby.

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  1. Olli May 20th, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    just take a look at xmpp4r – there is also a project which focuses on creating a actionmailer like interface for jabber messanging but i dont have the url right here

  2. Jesse Ross May 20th, 2006 at 2:12 pm

    Yeah — I’ve been playing with XMPP4R for some time now. I probably should have specified — Action Messenger satisfies my desire to play iwth Jabber in Rails, and since I’m working on a Rails site with a strong Jabber component, Action Messenger is a nice fit. Most of what I’m doing is communication back and forth (chat), rather than one-off notifications (messages), so I’m having to do more work in XMPP4R than Action Messenger, but it’s still a nice abstraction to have.

    If you find the other project, definitely let me know!

  3. Olli May 21st, 2006 at 1:35 am

    hey – sorry i was a bit confused – the project i meant was the action messanger ;)
    but you are right – actionmessenger is maybe the better choice for programming railsthings.

  4. Jesse Ross May 21st, 2006 at 8:41 am

    ;)

  5. Xav February 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    Hi Jesse,

    Do you plan to improve Action Messenger and contibute to the project ?
    Because i’m working too on a rails IM project and i agree that for the moment this plugin isn’t complete for my needs.
    I’m not sure that the goal of the author is to achieve a full featured rails jabber framework, but that would defenitely be a great thing to have !

  6. Jesse Ross February 21st, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    I wish I had time to, but I’ve been pretty wrapped up in other projects. If you yourself do some work on it, I’d love to hear about it!

  7. iceskysl November 16th, 2007 at 3:06 am

    hi,cool~
    can i use it to send message to a MSN user?

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