Scope the unread rooms stream per user

UnreadRoomsChannel streamed from a hardcoded global name, and every message
published its room id to it. Any authenticated user, including one with no
memberships at all, could subscribe and watch which rooms were active and exactly
when, across every closed room and direct conversation on the account. The browser
filters ids it doesn't recognise, but that happens after delivery.

Its sibling ReadRoomsChannel is already scoped per user; this mirrors it, and
message creation fans the notice out to the room's members instead of broadcasting
it to everyone. No message content was exposed either way, only the timing.
This commit is contained in:
Jeremy Daer
2026-08-03 14:55:19 -07:00
parent ee37809220
commit 3b509f55ca
4 changed files with 81 additions and 5 deletions
+8 -1
View File
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
class UnreadRoomsChannel < ApplicationCable::Channel
# Scoped per user, like ReadRoomsChannel. A single global stream would tell every
# authenticated connection when any room on the account is active, including closed
# rooms and direct conversations they're not part of.
def self.stream_name_for(user_id)
"user_#{user_id}_unreads"
end
def subscribed
stream_from "unread_rooms"
stream_from self.class.stream_name_for(current_user.id)
end
end
+10 -1
View File
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
module Message::Broadcasts
def broadcast_create
broadcast_append_to room, :messages, target: [ room, :messages ]
ActionCable.server.broadcast("unread_rooms", { roomId: room.id })
broadcast_unread_room
end
def broadcast_remove
broadcast_remove_to room, :messages
end
private
# Fanned out to the room's members rather than published on one global stream, so
# that the timing of activity in a room only reaches people who are in it.
def broadcast_unread_room
room.memberships.pluck(:user_id).each do |user_id|
ActionCable.server.broadcast UnreadRoomsChannel.stream_name_for(user_id), { roomId: room.id }
end
end
end
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
require "test_helper"
class UnreadRoomsChannelTest < ActionCable::Channel::TestCase
test "streams only the subscriber's own unread stream" do
stub_connection(current_user: users(:jz))
subscribe
assert subscription.confirmed?
assert_has_stream "user_#{users(:jz).id}_unreads"
assert_not_includes subscription.streams, "unread_rooms"
end
test "an outsider is not told about activity in a room they can't see" do
direct = rooms(:bender_and_kevin)
assert_not direct.users.include?(users(:jz)), "jz must be an outsider for this test to mean anything"
broadcasts = capture_unread_broadcasts_for(users(:jz)) do
direct.messages.create!(body: "Private", creator: users(:kevin), client_message_id: "outsider").broadcast_create
end
assert_empty broadcasts
end
test "a member is told about activity in their own room" do
direct = rooms(:bender_and_kevin)
broadcasts = capture_unread_broadcasts_for(users(:kevin)) do
direct.messages.create!(body: "Private", creator: users(:bender), client_message_id: "member").broadcast_create
end
assert_equal [ direct.id ], broadcasts.collect { |broadcast| broadcast["roomId"] }
end
private
def capture_unread_broadcasts_for(user)
stub_connection(current_user: user)
subscribe
stream = subscription.streams.sole
before = ActionCable.server.pubsub.broadcasts(stream).size
yield
ActionCable.server.pubsub.broadcasts(stream).drop(before).collect { |broadcast| JSON.parse(broadcast) }
end
end
+16 -3
View File
@@ -57,9 +57,22 @@ class MessagesControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
end
end
test "creating a message broadcasts unread room" do
assert_broadcasts "unread_rooms", 1 do
post room_messages_url(@room, format: :turbo_stream), params: { message: { body: "New one", client_message_id: 999 } }
test "creating a message broadcasts unread room to each member" do
@room.users.each do |member|
assert_broadcasts UnreadRoomsChannel.stream_name_for(member.id), 1 do
post room_messages_url(@room, format: :turbo_stream), params: { message: { body: "New one #{member.id}", client_message_id: member.id } }
end
end
end
test "creating a message doesn't broadcast unread room to non-members" do
outsiders = User.where.not(id: @room.users.map(&:id))
assert outsiders.any?, "need someone outside the room for this test to mean anything"
outsiders.each do |outsider|
assert_no_broadcasts UnreadRoomsChannel.stream_name_for(outsider.id) do
post room_messages_url(@room, format: :turbo_stream), params: { message: { body: "New one", client_message_id: 999 } }
end
end
end