Combining RealTime and Web Clients

Since the Web client is used to obtain the RealTime client’s WebSocket URL, you can continue using the Web client in combination with the RealTime client.

client = Slack::RealTime::Client.new

client.on :message do |data|
  case data.text
  when 'bot hi' then
    client.web_client.chat_postMessage(channel: data.channel, text: "Hi <@#{data.user}>!")
  when /^bot/ then
    client.web_client.chat_postMessage(channel: data.channel, text: "Sorry <@#{data.user}>, what?")
  end
end

client.start!

See a fully working example in examples/hi_real_time_and_web.

Screenshots of RealTime client example.

Concurrency

Slack::RealTime::Client needs help from a concurrency library and supports Async.

Slack::RealTime.configure do |config|
  config.concurrency = Slack::RealTime::Concurrency::Async
end

Use client.start_async instead of client.start!. A good example of such application is slack-ruby-bot-server.

client = Slack::RealTime::Client.new

client.start_async

Async

Add async-websocket to your Gemfile.

gem 'async-websocket'

See a fully working example in examples/hi_real_time_async_async.