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Social features with communityengine

Name: Social features with communityengine
Author: bborn

Add social networking to your app.

1,132 stars311 forksRubyGuide quality 8/10Updated 4/5/2021100% free · open source

What it does

CommunityEngine adds social networking features like user profiles, blogs, and photo sharing to your existing Ruby application

When to use it

•You have a Ruby web application and want to add social networking features to increase user engagement
•You need to create a community platform for your users to share content and interact with each other
•You want to leverage social networking features to build a loyal user base for your application

Ready-to-paste prompt

Create a new user and add a blog post: `User.create(:username => 'john', :email => 'john@example.com'); Blog.create(:user_id => User.first.id, :title => 'My First Blog Post', :body => 'This is my first blog post')`

Heads up: Make sure you have the correct version of Rails installed, as CommunityEngine requires Rails 6 or later, and you need to configure the `config.database.yml` file to use the correct database adapter

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Use with Claude

New

Skip the builder — one click puts this in Claude, Cursor, Antigravity and more.

🛠️ Technical setup

Expect 20–40 minutes in a terminal — or let your AI agent drive it.

Try it instantly — no install

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/communityengine && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/communityengine/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/communityengine/SKILL.md

Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)

claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

Adds a WorkflowStacks connector to Claude Code: search and load any skill here by chatting.

How Social features with communityengine works

Codeflow

Free to inspect

Social features with communityengine is a medium Ruby project (~10k lines across 222 code files, plus 84 test files). Expect some technical setup — comfortable with a terminal, or ask a developer. Last commit 66 months ago, Other license, has a test suite.

Size

Medium codebase

~10k lines · 222 code files · ~1 h to skim

Setup

Some technical setup

Comfortable with a terminal? 20–40 min. Otherwise ask a dev.

Runs on

Ruby

No API keys detected

Ruby 63%HTML 20%JavaScript 14%CSS 1%CoffeeScript 1%

Where to start reading

1
README.markdown
Start here — what it does and how to install it
2
app/controllers/activities_controller.rb
Inside app/ — the main logic begins here

What's in each folder

app/Core code — the actual logic346 files

lib/Core code — the actual logic35 files

db/Folder81 files

config/Configuration20 files

generators/Folder8 files

lang/Translations1 files

sample_files/Folder1 files

test/Tests — proof it works128 files

READMEHas testsDocumentedCI checksOther licenseLast update 66 mo agoArchived — read only