curl -L https://github.com/palkan/acli/releases/latest/download/acli-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/acli
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/acli

$ acli

Enter URL:

# After successful connection you receive a message:
Connected to Action Cable at http://example.com/cable

# Subscribe to channel (without parameters)
\s channel_name

# Subscribe to channel with params

\s+ channel_name id:1

# or interactively

\s+
Enter channel ID:
...
# Generate params object by providing keys and values one by one
Enter key (or press ENTER to finish):
...
Enter value:
# After successful subscription you receive a message
Subscribed to channel_name


# Performing actions
\p speak message:Hello!

# or interactively (the same way as \s+)
\p+


# Retrieving the channel's history since the specified time

# Relative, for example, 10 minutes ago ("h" and "s" modifiers are also supported)
\h since:10m

# Absolute since the UTC time (seconds)
\h since:1650634535

acli -u http://example.com/cable -c channel_name

# or using full option names
acli --url=http://example.com/cable --channel=channel_name

# you can omit scheme and even path (/cable is used by default)
acli -u example.com

acli -u http://example.com/cable -c ChatChannel --channel-params=id:1,name:"Jack"

acli -u example.com --headers="x-api-token:secret,cookie:username=john"

# Print help
\?

# Quit
\q

# Print usage
acli -h

# Print version
acli -v

# Quit after M incoming messages (excluding pings and system messages)
acli -u http://example.com/cable -c channel_name --quit-after=M

# Enabling PONG commands in response to PINGs
acli -u http://example.com/cable --pong

# initial provision
dip provision

# run rake tasks
dip rake test

# or open a console within a container
dip bash