title: Push data from rails app to clients
body: <p>I'm working on a rails app that will primarily be exposed by an api to various mobile clients (iOS, android etc). The application involves users submitting data to the server (via api calls), but what I want to include is the ability to push this data down to other clients. The general concept is similar to a messaging app, where I submit a message to the server from me client and the receiver is pushed the message from the server. </p>
  
  <p>The only method I know of at the moment is to constantly poll the server, but there must be better tech solutions than this. Any ideas?</p>