Rails - Aug 2013 - ActionController::Live in development without "config.cache_classes = true"?

Hey all,

we recently ported to Rails 4.0 from 3.2.13 with our application and were 
really excited about the new ActionController::Live functionalities. Part 
of our application is a messaging/notification system and we wanted to 
implement a live notification when a new message reaches the inbox of a 
user. To create not too much overhead we decided to implement some lame 
JavaScript polling function that checks for new messages every 15 seconds - 
not that fancy in my opinion ;-)

With ActionController::Live and Server-Sent Events (in combination with 
Redis) we were hoping to have found a good solution with not too much 
overhead. Maybe some of you know that for this to work you can''t go
with
the WebRICK web server - but we were fine to go with Puma.

But what really bugs me: You need to set "config.cache_classes" and 
"config.eager_load" to "true" for your development
environment to let this
combination (mentioned above) work out. That means that in development you 
have to restart the web server (Puma) each time you want code changes to be 
applied.

Did anyone else encounter these uncomfortable workflow? Is anybody out 
there who can give me some point to think forward from to find a solution 
for this?

Right now we''re thinking of a (very, very, very) bad hack: Activate the
old-style polling based on JS within development environment to somehow 
verify that message notifications are send without a page reload and
don''t
use the ActionController::Live - and go with the good solution in the 
production environment.

In my opinion I would rather go with a better solution for development ...

I would really appreciate any input on this topic :-)

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