Ruby On Rails Social Network Plugin: Community Engine
25
May
Community Engine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
Features of this social network plugin:
- Authentication (sign up, log in)
- User profiles
- User search
- Blogs with tagging, categories and rich text editing
- Photo uploading and tagging
- “Clippings” - visual bookmarks
- Commenting and comment notification by e-mail (Blogs, profiles, photos, and clippings can be commented)
- Forums
- Friendships and activity feeds
- Favoriting of clippings and blog posts
- And more!
2 Responses for "Ruby On Rails Social Network Plugin: Community Engine"
As a(an amateur) Rails developer it’s definitely interesting.
I’m curious as to why they describe it as a plugin, though, when it appears to be a full-blown application in itself.
This plugin is based on RailsEngine that in some way mirror a Rails application and can be use as a plugin.
It’s not a traditionnal rails plugin but a Rails Engine one. That’s why it has this structure.
You should read about Rails Engine (I thought it was deprecated …)