What is the preferred method of implementing the OpenSocial platform? I'm aware of Apache Shindig but can't really find any useful information on it. Also, is it possible to use an existing solution like the Rails-based lovdbyless and add OpenSocial features to it?
A:
There seems to be a plugin that someone started, Ruby on Rails, OpenSocial Container plugin 0.1.0, the comments have someone from Apache Shindig suggesting it get rolled into there as the Ruby server implementation.
I also found an article on rolling your own, Google's OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails.
I haven't tried, either, yet.
Otto
2008-12-24 17:12:13
+2
A:
I've ported shindig over to .NET at http://code.google.com/p/pesta/ and a sample site using it from partuza at http://www.codeplex.com/raya
seanlinmt
2009-03-26 21:40:23
+1
A:
Even some of the guys on the Shindig team admit that the documentation is very sparse, to the extent that they say the source code is the documentation - and, believe me, there's quite a bit of source code to look at.
The most helpful links I've found are these:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHINDIG/The+rough+guide+to+deploying+shindig
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-shindig-dev/200905.mbox/%[email protected]%3e
and for an example of how to replace the default classes so as to interact with a database:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHINDIG/Providing+your+own+data+service+implementation
davek
2009-09-23 11:42:50