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diff --git a/guides/source/action_cable_overview.md b/guides/source/action_cable_overview.md
index 16aa9438a2..3716aa0ecb 100644
--- a/guides/source/action_cable_overview.md
+++ b/guides/source/action_cable_overview.md
@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ incorporate real-time features into your Rails application.
After reading this guide, you will know:
+* What Action Cable is and its integration on backend and frontend
* How to setup Action Cable
* How to setup channels
+* Deployment and Architecture setup for running Action Cable
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Introduction
------------
@@ -236,12 +240,12 @@ WebNotificationsChannel.broadcast_to(
```
The `WebNotificationsChannel.broadcast_to` call places a message in the current
-subscription adapter (Redis by default)'s pubsub queue under a separate
-broadcasting name for each user. For a user with an ID of 1, the broadcasting
-name would be `web_notifications_1`.
+subscription adapter (by default `redis` for production and `async` for development and
+test environments)'s pubsub queue under a separate broadcasting name for each user.
+For a user with an ID of 1, the broadcasting name would be `web_notifications:1`.
The channel has been instructed to stream everything that arrives at
-`web_notifications_1` directly to the client by invoking the `received`
+`web_notifications:1` directly to the client by invoking the `received`
callback.
### Subscriptions
@@ -309,7 +313,7 @@ App.cable.subscriptions.create { channel: "ChatChannel", room: "Best Room" },
```ruby
# Somewhere in your app this is called, perhaps
# from a NewCommentJob.
-ChatChannel.broadcast_to(
+ActionCable.server.broadcast(
"chat_#{room}",
sent_by: 'Paul',
body: 'This is a cool chat app.'
@@ -329,7 +333,7 @@ class ChatChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel
end
def receive(data)
- ChatChannel.broadcast_to("chat_#{params[:room]}", data)
+ ActionCable.server.broadcast("chat_#{params[:room]}", data)
end
end
```
@@ -418,7 +422,7 @@ App.cable.subscriptions.create "AppearanceChannel",
buttonSelector = "[data-behavior~=appear_away]"
install: ->
- $(document).on "page:change.appearance", =>
+ $(document).on "turbolinks:load.appearance", =>
@appear()
$(document).on "click.appearance", buttonSelector, =>
@@ -506,10 +510,10 @@ WebNotificationsChannel.broadcast_to(
The `WebNotificationsChannel.broadcast_to` call places a message in the current
subscription adapter's pubsub queue under a separate broadcasting name for each
user. For a user with an ID of 1, the broadcasting name would be
-"web_notifications_1".
+`web_notifications:1`.
The channel has been instructed to stream everything that arrives at
-"web_notifications_1" directly to the client by invoking the `received`
+`web_notifications:1` directly to the client by invoking the `received`
callback. The data passed as argument is the hash sent as the second parameter
to the server-side broadcast call, JSON encoded for the trip across the wire,
and unpacked for the data argument arriving to `received`.
@@ -568,12 +572,13 @@ environment configuration files.
### Other Configurations
-The other common option to configure is the log tags applied to the
-per-connection logger. Here's close to what we're using in Basecamp:
+The other common option to configure, is the log tags applied to the
+per-connection logger. Here's an example that uses
+the user account id if available, else "no-account" while tagging:
```ruby
config.action_cable.log_tags = [
- -> request { request.env['bc.account_id'] || "no-account" },
+ -> request { request.env['user_account_id'] || "no-account" },
:action_cable,
-> request { request.uuid }
]