App Engine Websockets! PLEASE HELP

[Callan A. Carr]

So I decided to migrate to App Engine from Heroku for my ruby on rails application

I REALLY like this platform and successfully deployed my app to the flexible environment. I was devastated to see that my web-socket functionality was not working and this would not work because it is not supported. I am using the native ActionCable websocket API provided by rails.

My question: Is there ANY way to use App Engine with websockets in the flexible environment.

I have found conflicting reports online about this, I really need to be able to use websockets for App Engine and refactoring the app to not use websockets or some other kind of technology is not on the cards.

I am willing to POSSIBLY not use App Engine and use another service but I would be unhappy about this. I want to use App engine.

Thanks for reading

-Callan

[Steren Giannini]

Hi,

I am a Product Manager on App Engine.

Websockets is a feature we are actively working on and that is currently in alpha stage for App Engine Flexible environment.

If you want to get an early access in order to validate your app runs as expected, please fill this form: https://goo.gl/forms/bAXjyYL5Nh3oZVhh1.

In addition, I invite you to subscribe to this issue in our public tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/35886348

Thanks for your patience and feedback

Steren