A Rails Engine that provide short messaging and notification processes for any rails application.
If you want to add short messaging and notifications to your rails app, this engine makes it really simple. You can use @ to reference and search on userid, and # to reference topics, and & to reference people. You can allow you users to create these messages, and/or allow the web application to generate these messages on events. You can then generate a javascript file that will check for messages via jquery and pop or notify the user of a new message or activity.
You can also add custom name spaces for particular topics or at_users or people.
sudo gem install chattty
script/generate chattty
rake db:migrate
# if you want the jquery
script/generate chattty_js