Ruby & WebSockets: TCP for the Browser - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on December 22, 2009 WebSockets are one of the most underappreciated innovations in HTML5. Unlike local storage, canvas, web workers, or even video playback, the benefits of the WebSocket API are not immediately apparent to the end user. In fact, over the course of the past decade we have invented a dozen technologies to solve the problem of asynchronous and bi-directional communi
