I have a client that wants to create a Facebook-like experience on her website (obviously significantly less sophisticated), where she wants users to have:
- Profiles (with personal information, and a few custom text
fields) - Be able to private messages, and
- Be able to group chat about specific subjects (aka like facebook pages, or forums
with short messages)
She is running a Linux server with Ruby on Rails.
Any ideas on the appropriate technology to use? I’m thinking XMPP could do a lot of this, but maybe you guys have a better idea?
Thank you!
It has Ruby on Rails. Rails is perfectly suitable to do such an application in no time. Just create a User model with Devise and some Message models