I feel like a chat server is something best served by something not in your stack (especially Rails). I surprised you chose to do it in house. How about using h

I feel like a chat server is something best served by something not in your stack (especially Rails). I surprised you chose to do it in house. How about using https://pusher.com/ https://pusher.com/ or https://www.firebase.com/ https://www.firebase.com/ ?