Social Stream Base¶ ↑

Social Stream Base provides the basic functionality for Social Stream, the core for building social network websites. The features of this gem are limited, for a complete social network environment see github.com/ging/social_stream

Features¶ ↑

• Social network infraestructure

• Activity streams infraestructure

• Subjects: {User} and {Group}

• Objects: {Post} and {Commment}

• Private messages and notifications, by Mailboxer

• Avatars, by Avatars For Rails

Installation¶ ↑

This will install Social Stream basic functionalities. For a complete social network platform see Social Stream

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'social_stream-base'

and run:

bundle update

Then:

rails generate social_stream:base:install

This will generate the following:

• A jquery:install generation for jQuery support

• A devise:install generation for authentication support

• An initializer file with configuration for Social Stream.

• A configuration file for defining custom Social Stream relations. You can define your application default relations at config/relations.yml

• A new application layout

• A migration providing the database schema

Do not forget to migrate your database

rake db:migrate

Actors and Activity Objects¶ ↑

Social Stream Base relies in Devise. You have authenticated users support in your application by default.

Besides, there is another kind of actor: groups. If you want other type of actor (like organizations or social events) you must include an actor_id column in the new actor migration. Then add it to config/initializers/social_stream.rb

There is also support for two types of basic activity objects: posts and comments. You can create other types, like photos, bookmarks or videos, but you must do the same: add a activity_object_id column in the migration and include it in the initializer.

Documentation¶ ↑

Social Stream Base documentation is available at rdoc.info

Discussion¶ ↑

We are reaching beta phase of development. Feel free to add an issue or send a message at github.