tog: An Open Source Social Network Platform for Ruby on Rail

02Mar

tog: An Open Source Social Network Platform for Ruby on Rail

A while back, when I was researching open source solutions for building a social network with Ruby on Rails, I came across tog. Unlike other solutions, tog doesn't believe in generic social networks. Instead, tog is a collection of useful plugins that can easily add social network features to your Ruby on Rails application. In addition to these useful plugins, tog is released under the unrestrictive MIT license and was designed to make developing and integrating new plugins easy.

Here is a summary of the currently available plugins and features included:

tog_core

Base controllers for member and admin actions
Base dashboards controller (public, member and admin)
Dependency declaration for common social features (comments, tags, activity, etc.)
Abuse and comments management
Configuration management
Helpers for user interface, config access, etc.
Patches and libraries
System wide searching functionality

tog_user

Login, logout and signup processes
Password reminder
Activation process
recaptcha support
User login or email as key
Administration interface

tog_social

Profiles (including photos)
Groups (including images)
Moderated and open groups
Public and private groups
Invitations for joining a group
Bi-directional friendships
Followers and fan friendships

tog_conversatio

Multiblog system
Multiauthors blogs
Atom subscriptions
Blog’s archives
Tag clouds per blog and global
Draft & published status

tog_mail

Multiple folders
Send messages to your friend list
Send messages to a given user

tog_picto

Photos grouped in photosets
Photoset-defined privacy
Multiple sized for each photos
Comment-able, rateable and taggable photos and photosets

tog_vault

Pages
Children pages
Helper for including pages on views
HTML editor
Small publication workflow (draft-approved-published)

One thing I noticed is that the current plugins don't provide a discussion board or forums functionality. May be this would be my contribution :-).

Written By:

Hatem Mahmoud (www.expressionlab.com)

Comments

1 Andrei wrote: on Thursday, April 30, 2009:

Glad that you found Tog. I wanted to point out that there is a Google community forum where you can ask questions or provide your help.

http://groups.google.com/group/tog_users

Also there is a Campfire chat where you chat with the core members of Tog at:

http://aitor.campfirenow.com/235b9

2 Hatem wrote: on Tuesday, May 05, 2009:

Thanks Andrei for the information. By the way, I noticed that Tog is not updated frequently. Is there plan for a new release soon?

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