Social Networking

[Sayuj Othayoth]

Hi,

I want to create a family website which includes social networking features.
The site should have dynamic articles, news, announcements, events, gallery etc public.
And it should have a social networking part for family members.
Also an admin controller for public contents and social networking administration.

I am familiar with Ruby and RoR.
How can I start with these? Is there any app / cms for this? Will it be good to use TDD?

Thank you
sayuj

[Rafal Zdziech]

Hi,

You may want to tried something similar on the github. Someone may already done it. Anyway I think it would be good to start with Tdd techniques because it will save your time.

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[Bernd Ritter]

Hi Sayuj,

try https://joindiaspora.com/ its pretty much what you want, it's open source and it's ROR!

Cheers,
Bernd

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Try some of these:

https://github.com/insoshi/insoshi#readme

http://communityengine.org/

http://lovdbyless.com/

http://www.enginey.com/

Lovd by Less looks pretty good, haven’t had a chance to try it yet tho.

Best,
Pardeep.

[Tim Shaffer]

That's a pretty good name for a social networking site. I feel like I devolve a little bit every time I use Facebook et al.

[Peter Hickman]

On 25 June 2011 10:18, sukesh <sukes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> TRY MY SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE named DEVOLVE  - social networking
> website for developers. Code is available on http://github.com/devolve/devolve.
>

Something other than the boilerplate README would be useful for people
to get an idea what the code is about

[Peter Bell]

A User has many teachers. I'm trying to lock down my API. I have a "user.add_teacher teacher" method and want to make that the *only* way to "user.teachers << teacher". Any way to lock down the teachers association so it is read only from outside the user class and only settable within self?

I'm not just looking for attr_protected to avoid mass assignment. I'm specifically looking to ensure that nobody on the team will write "user.teachers << teacher" and bypass all of the additional business logic in the add_teacher method. I know I can do a "find within project" for "teachers <<" but don't want to remember to have to do that.

I know my specs should catch anything that's amiss, and I'm not sure whether this is an idiomatic approach in Ruby/Rails but I'd appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.

Thanks,
Peter

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Peter Bell <pe...@pbell.com> wrote:

> I'm specifically looking to ensure that nobody on the team will write
> "user.teachers << teacher" and bypass all of the additional business
> logic in the add_teacher method.

Maybe you could instead just use the Association callbacks --

before_add, after_add, before_remove, after_remove

to run your business logic on each operation?

FWIW,
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[Frederick Cheung]

could you overwrite << in your association proxy ie

class User
has_many :teachers do
def <<(*args)
raise "don't use me!"
end
end
end

?

There are lots of other ways users can add teachers though, eg
user.teachers.build, Teacher.new(:user_id => some_user.id) etc so I
don't thing you can make this completely watertight.

Fred
> Thanks,
> Peter

[Andrew Skegg]

Peter Bell <peter@...> writes:

It seems there is business logic to check when adding teachers to users which
goes beyond a simple "validates_associated :teacher". Rather than restrict
developers to a single method call, I would investigate custom validations.

See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations_callbacks.html

[Sayuj Othayoth]

Hi Sukesh,

Is there any administration part for the same?

[Sayuj Othayoth]

Hi Bernd,

Diaspora is a little crazy to install :)

Diaspora is awesome. But it's developed under rails 2. Do you know, is Diaspora available on rails 3 also?
Or is there any way to convert a rails 2 app to rails 3?

And, shall I customise Diaspora and use for my personal use on internet? Is there any problem for this?

thank you,
sayuj o

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:52 PM, exels...@gmail.com <exels...@gmail.com> wrote:

Try some of these:

https://github.com/insoshi/insoshi#readme

http://communityengine.org/

http://lovdbyless.com/

http://www.enginey.com/

Lovd by Less looks pretty good, haven’t had a chance to try it yet tho.

     hey

      anybody is using any one from   above  links ?

    Thanks 

   amritpalpathakgne.wordpress.com  

[kausik bakshi]

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hi 

sayuj

you can go: https://github.com/kausikbakshi/friends

here you find an example of social networking (not admin panel include here)

I think this will help you.

Rails version

2.3.9

ruby

1.8.7

Thanks & Regards

Kausik Bakshi

[Everaldo Gomes]

Hi!

Two or three months ago someone announced social stream in the list:

https://github.com/ging/social_stream

[thiagocifani]

Hello everaldo, this is a promising project! its really great! I think I will use it someday! I loved it!

2011/10/26 Everaldo Gomes <everald...@gmail.com>

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