Real-time chat in Ruby on Rails

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Published on 2011-08-30T07:18:44Z Indexed on 2011/11/15 2:10 UTC
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First, I'm sorry because I know this question has been asked many times but I'm still looking forward to finding the answer to my problem.

I'd want to implement a Real-time chat for my Rails app but I can't really host the server which handles the sockets. I've tried Faye but it needs a server. I've also heard of pusher but it's limited to 20 users at a time on the chat and I can't really be sure they won't be more.

I've thought of irc but I think I can't really embed it into a rails app, maybe it needs sockets...

So here's my problem, can I implement a real-time chat without owning a server ? What can you advice me ?

Thank you for your answers.

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