Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi

Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by mtts on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @03:39AM (#177351)

This may be just the TechCrunch blurb, but if they really want to be the WordPress of social networks, using Rails will be a problem for them.

Part of the success of WP is that it uses PHP and MySQL, two technologies that are ubiquitous, and that installing it is a simple matter of dumping some files on some shared hosting space.

Installing a Rails app, on the other hand, is nothing to sneeze at.

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by mhartl on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @09:50AM (#177468)

Our model will probably end up being more like MySQL than WordPress, but that's a harder analogy to understand. In any case, though, we think Heroku (http://heroku.com/) is a game-changer when it comes to hosted Rails apps.

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by mtts on Thursday May 01, 2008 @11:11AM (#178504)

A MySQL model actually makes more sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by mosburger on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @08:30AM (#177437)

At least it wasn't written in Java. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ddevore/archive/2008/03/call_fo...

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by 1gor on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @07:00AM (#177408)

That's right, but understanding and customizing a Rails app is a walk in a park, while a dissecting and adapting somebody's PHP app is a tough task.

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by khangtoh on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @11:45AM (#177554)

huh? You never heard of ModRails? Check out ModRails.com

Installing and setting up Rails is getting more and more easy since the days of 2005. The only disadvantage now is the memory consumption of each Mongrel instance that loads your entire Rails app into your memory.

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