Basic social network functionality

Question

I'm going to develop a social like network using Ruby on Rails. For this app I need basic social functionality like friends, activities, authentication, user profile, facebook connect, comments. I searched for rails plugins with social functions and i found - tog and community engine. So which is better and more easier to extend? Thanks

Answer 1

Dimitar,

I would suggest you to check on http://ruby-toolbox.com/ for rails solutions (implementations) of the features you mentioned before. Example:

http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/social_networking.html or http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authentication.html

Now, it also depends on how much you want to customize your site. If you want to use something out of the box (that has the requested features), you can choose between http://www.communityengine.org/ and http://lovdbyless.com/

Answer 2

You might want to check out this link: http://jimneath.org/2008/04/25/building-a-social-network-site-in-rails/

Answer 3

The functionality you named is almost trivial in Rails (except maybe for Facebook Connect). Have you considered developing the software that powers your network yourself?

Answer 4

Another option is to use an open source project as a basis. I created and open sourced Brevidy, a video social network.

Source: https://github.com/iwasrobbed/Brevidy

Demo: http://brevidy.heroku.com/rob/channels