RubyChat

Chat in Ruby and Tkinter GUI

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Table Of Contents

• Protocol
• Install Dependencies
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Features & TODO

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Protocol

RubyChat uses it's own protocol of messages which uses different status codes.

The basic structure of any response or request that can be found in responses.rb or requests.rb:

Field	Status Code	Json Message Length	Json Message Content
Bytes Size	1 Byte	8 Bytes	Json Message Length Bytes

Status Codes Table:

Value	Meaning
10	Login Request
11	Login Success Response
12	Login Failure Response
20	Send Message Request
21	Send Message Success Response
30	Logout Request
31	Logout Success Response
40	Refresh Request
41	Refresh Success Response
42	Refresh Failure Response

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Install Dependencies

Windows

Make sure you have bundler:

bundler -v

If you do not have bundler:

gem install bundler

When you are done, install the gems needed for the project:

bundle install

Linux

Make sure you have bundler:

bundler -v

If you do not have bundler:

gem install bundler

When you are done, install the gems needed for the project:

bundle install

If there are issues with Tkinter try installing Tk or Tcl manually

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Features & TODO

• Create basic client-server model
• Create multi-threaded server that accepts multiple clients
• Create GUI for Login
• Create GUI for Chat
• Create Responses
• Create Request
• Create Serializer for the requests and responses to json and then to bytes array
• Create Deserializer for the bytes arrays to json to responses and requests
• Create Socket Utils class for easier data sending and receiving process with the responses and requests
• Merge login networking with GUI
• Merge send message networking with GUI
• Create refresh thread of the messages got after login
• Create logout
• Get history of messages that were sent before login since server is running
• Prettify the messages in GUI