Ruby Ebook for building social neworking site.

Question

I want to build a basic Social networking site in Rails. Can you please suggest me some ebooks for that or any web resource.

Thanks

Answer 1

RailSpace By Micheal Hartl. It focuses on Rails 1.1 or 1.2 but I'm sure you'll be able to get rolling with that book. But if your looking for something specific it would be great if you could list some of your requirements.

.Practical ROR Social networking sites

Answer 2

I can also recommend the Practical ROR Social Networking Sites book that Sid mentioned. I've used it before and it covers pretty much everything you'd want to know about building a "social network" site in Rails.

Answer 3

I can do you one better. http://teachmetocode.com/screencasts/creating-a-twitter-clone-in-rails-part-1

This is the screencast for creating a Twitter clone. It deals with following/follower associations. I practically learned how to make my site using the screen cast.

Answer 4

Site points simply rails 2 http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/

This is a great book to start learning rails with. The book focuses on building a site like Reddit/Digg.

Answer 5

Lovd by Less is essentially a "social-network starter kit" built on Rails.