Socialite is a social news website in a box.
We want to make it ridiculously easy to spin off a new social news website.
The goal is to build a web application that will act as a social news website (think digg, reddit, or hacker news). But Socialite is meant to be more like a CMS, similar in functionality to Pligg. It will be possible to customize the web application to change its look, its managed content, and its general behavior.
- Clone this git repo
- Install ruby and rubygems
- Install the rails gem:
gem install rails - Install the bundler gem:
gem install bundler - Run the following rake command and give it a username and a password for the initial administrator:
rake production:initialize[username,password] - Start the webserver
thin start -e production - Point your browser to http://localhost:3000 and set up your app through the admin section
Here is a list of features we will be building soon:
- add nice styling to all pages + images (JQueryUI theme roller?)
- admin section to change the style (choose among all JQuery themes?)
- make sure the index page still displays nicely even if the title or the description of the submission is very large
- index page shows thumbnails of urls or videos or images (toggled on or off in the admin section?)
- the index page could be split into components where admins can inject custom html
- a bookmarklet to submit posts from the bookmark toolbar
- show stats like users with highest karma and stuff