Turbo chat

Introduction

A tutorial to create an AI chat, a clone of ChatGPT (or Claude) but that can also run in your private network and without paying a monthly fee.

https://medium.com/@m.mastrodonato/lets-write-a-free-chatgpt-clone-with-rails-8-part-1-85ee5668d8fb

Install

Download the source and install the bundle:

git clone git@github.com:marcomd/turbo_chat.git

cd turbo_chat

bundle install

⚠️ To execute prompts locally you need ollama.

To only try the UI (not to develop):

bin/rails server

Navigate to http://localhost:3000

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To develop I suggest you to install foreman to easily get the hot reload:

gem install foreman

foreman start -f Procfile.dev

Navigate to http://localhost:5100

Summary

In this first part the application is set up with the basic structure:

• Part 1
  • authentication
  • basic models: user, chat and messages
  • rspec
  • a style with bootstrap
  • the service that interfaces the LLM models using ollama
• Part 2
  • Added a UI
  • Prompt handled asynchronously in background
  • Propagating updates from server to clients