Rails application with pusher/faye

Question

Iv'e been asked to make an app like this one: http://www.dealcent.com/

Im having trouble figuring out how to make the bids update, i think that i could use something like pusher or faye (http://pusher.com/ or http://faye.jcoglan.com/) and subscribe to each event. but i was wondering if there was a more elegant/efficient solution.

also if it could be hosted on heroku or would it be better a private VPN.

It has to be on rails 3.

Answer 1

I've used pusher with much success, not sure about faye since I never used it. We use pusher to push responses from asynchronous background jobs to the user when those jobs are done.

It's quite nifty and takes very little setup.