[Rails] Adoppt Ruby on Rails: A social Networking Platform

Farhan
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:23:23 -0000

So some of you here may have been wondering just what the heck I have  been
working on and asking all of these questions, some really basic  quesitons,
other very advanced.

  Well, I''m writing this post to tell you what I have been working on.

  I am an experienced PHP developer who with this project has totally converted
to Rails.

  Despite my years of experience with PHP, I have decided that I may  never go
back to it (unless, a gun is put to my head or there is no  other choice).

  About one and a half month ago when I was almost ready to start working  on my
project (using PHP) I discovered Ruby on Rails. The very same day  I decided to
develop my new project in Ruby on Rails.

  Today, just around 45 days later, my most ambitious project to date is  ready
for public testing. This project is not just a project, it  combines many of my
dream projects in to one. There are a few things my  crew is still working on,
such as finalizing Lucene based search,   but I wanted to give everyone here a
sneak peak. Among the few issues  still unresolved are intermittent
"Application failed to start errors"  (Just refresh the page if you
experience this. Can anyone help me out  as to why this may be happening?).

  You guys have really helped me out and I have never found another list like
this one.

  So without futher ado, I present you with http://adoppt.com (in Alpha).

  To summarize, here is what Adoppt is about.

  Members can:

  - create an account
  - can join communities or create their own communities with all the features
below.
  - claim their blog hosted on external blogging service (blogspot.com, xanga,
livejournal, myspace etc)
  - can ping their blogs, blog posts upon which the bot will index their  blog
post and automatically extract tags, URLs and the relation between  that and
other pages.
  - create a blog on Adoppt (in addition to others they might have)
  - can comment on blog posts
  - can have threaded discussions about any URLs/ Topics they like
  - can post their favorites to their communities
  - can make friends within the network
  - can view traffic stats of any URL listed
  - view hourly, weekly and all time blogosphere report, top tags, top  favorite
tags, top blog tags, top blog post tags and top  question/answers tags
  - more features such as events management, classifieds, internal messaging are
in development.

  For instance, there are some communities that I have created that may be of
interest to the folks here:

  http://rubyonrails.adoppt.com/
  http://mysql.adoppt.com

  Members who create communities become the community owners/leaders.

  Here are a few screenshots and a little bit of extra information:

http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/03/more-sneak-peaks-into-adoppt-and.html

http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/03/revolutionary-social-networking.html


  Adoppt Blog is available at http://adoppt.info and has guides and other
related Adoppt updates and materials.

  A bug tracker is available at http://tracker.adoppt.info

  Obiously, I must thank a few people. I have posted a "thank you"
list  which can be viewed  at http://adoppt.com/content/credits

  The thank you page also lists ways to get your name listed there.

  Please take a few moments to give me your feedback. Please be gentle as this
is my first Ruby on Rails project.

  I will be more than happy to answer any questions about how I developed
Adoppt.

  Throughout the development, I have just loved working with Rails.

  Many thanks to David and all those who have created Rails for us.

  I love web development and now that major development is done here, I am
available for other projects.

  --Frank



Rails Blog: http://railsruby.blogspot.com
MySQL Blog: http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com
Linux / Security Blog: http://frankmash.blogspot.com

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