Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including:

• Multiple rooms, with access controls
• Direct messages
• File attachments with previews
• Search
• Notifications (via Web Push)
• @mentions
• API, with support for bot integrations

Campfire is single-tenant: any rooms designated "public" will be accessible by all users in the system. To support entirely distinct groups of customers, you would deploy multiple instances of the application.

bin/setup
bin/rails server

Campfire's Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional, single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching, file serving, and SSL.

To persist storage of the database and file attachments, map a volume to /rails/storage.

To configure additional features, you can set the following environment variables:

• SSL_DOMAIN - enable automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt for the given domain name
• DISABLE_SSL - alternatively, set DISABLE_SSL to serve over plain HTTP
• VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY/VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY - set these to a valid keypair to allow sending Web Push notifications. You can generate a new keypair by running /script/admin/create-vapid-key
• SENTRY_DSN - to enable error reporting to sentry in production, supply your DSN here

For example:

docker build -t campfire .

docker run \
  --publish 80:80 --publish 443:443 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  --volume campfire:/rails/storage \
  --env SECRET_KEY_BASE=$YOUR_SECRET_KEY_BASE \
  --env VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY=$YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY \
  --env VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY=$YOUR_PRIVATE_KEY \
  --env SSL_DOMAIN=chat.example.com \
  campfire