ANYCABLE

Action Cable on steroids!

Combines the good parts of Action Cable with the power of your favorite language for concurrent applications

ANYCABLE

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See how it works

You Had

Client applications communicating with Rails through Action Cable.

It's written in Ruby and doesn't act well in terms of resources usage and overall performance, especially under high load.

How can we fix it?

Now You Have

AnyCable plugged into the Rails application that allows you to use custom WebSocket server.

Try one of the existing AnyCable servers or write your own in any language you like.

Reduced CPU usage

Running WebSocket Shootout benchmark

AnyCable-Go

ActionCable

Reduced memory usage

Handling 20K idle connections

AnyCable-Go

798 MB

ErlyCable

832 MB

ActionCable

3,5 GB

Drastically increased broadcasting performance

Broadcast RTT depending on number of connections

AnyCable-Go

ErlyCable

ActionCable

Outside of Rails usage

AnyCable doesn't depend on Rails.
You can use it with other Ruby applications too.

Check out Sinatra example.

How To Use With Rails?

# Add AnyCable to your Gemfile

gem 'anycable-rails', group: :production

# Generate server script

rails generate anycable

# Run gRPC server

./bin/anycable

# Run WebSocket server (e.g. anycable-go)

anycable-go -addr=0.0.0.0:3334

Compatible with ActionCable
Choose one of the existing servers or build your own

Powered by gRPC

Want to contribute? Fork us on GitHub!

Have a question? Ask us on Gitter!

ANYCABLE

You Had

Now You Have

Reduced CPU usage

Running WebSocket Shootout benchmark

Reduced memory usage

Handling 20K idle connections

Drastically increased broadcasting performance

Broadcast RTT depending on number of connections

Outside of Rails usage

How To Use With Rails?

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