Bee Connect (Active)

An advance rails social netowrking system. Think like its is mini facebook with live chat support. Features like group , group moderation, group chat, global chat, profile update, post, comments, favorites etc..

Screenshots

Registration

Chat Room

Live Chat

User Post

Create Group

Notifications

Update Profile Page

There are tons of feature . So I don't want to flood this with screenshots. Thanks

Features

Latest version of Rail(v5.2)
Login/Logout
Registration with password reset
Registration User Email Verifications
Ability to post
Ability To follow
Live Chat with file attachments
Group Support
Ability to Search Username
Good Pagination
User Profiles
Live Notifications
Create Chatrooms
Live Chatrooms
Ability to upload avatars
Ability to comments
Ability to receive message notifications
Good flash notifications
Bootstrap based
Moderation support
Roles support

Installation

Development

For development we recommend to use sqlite. Feel free to use any database like mysql or sqlite or pgsql.

For windows user you can install imagemagick and add to path and also remember to install redis server on windows. And for database rename .env.example to .env and adjust that file. For Ubuntu LTS (18.04) you can follow the guide.
Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/bloggervista/Bee-Connect.git

Update repository

sudo apt update

Install Redis Server

sudo apt install redis-server

Start Redis Server

sudo service redis-server start

Install Imagemagick

$ sudo apt install imagemagick

Setup Database

# Install pgsql or any database system you like
$ cp .env.example .env
# After copying please change that file to match database details

Migrate and Seed this database

$ rails db:migrate
$ rails db:seed

Start rails built in Puma server

$ rails s

Note this default username and password

# You can change default admin username and password from frontend interface or db/seeds.rb file
username: admin@admin.com
password: admin@123

Start the sidekiq queue server. If you don't start you will not see live chat like that.

$ bundle exec sidekiq

Go to your lovely browser and start using this project

Production

Compile your asset so that they will be minified and production ready.

$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

Install Nginx
Use capistrano if you like
Point Nginx to public folder of this project
Go to config/database.yml and adjust the database settings
Go to config/environment/production.rb and enter your website address or ip
Go to config/initializer/devise.rb change config.mailer_sender and config.secret_key to your appropriate settings

Testing

To run tests:

Will be added soon

Tips

If you are windows user we recommend you to use Cloud9 online IDE or use rails installer.

Contribution

Feel free to contribute and we are very happy to merge your PR.

Future of this project

Use Tabler as admin panel
Using webpack and use react js
Fully documentation for every parts
Social Login with facebook, github, twitter etc.
Fully Developed backend. Right now admin can only delete post he cannot monitor user
Roles and Permissions
Ability to Upload Videos
Adding emoticons support.
Ability to send weekly mails
Support to latest version of rails. (at the time or writing Rails 5.1)
Ability to create various form by admin like contact form etc.
Fully test with chrome headless browser and 90% code coverage
Advertisement support
Payments with leading provider like paypal, stripe.
API For mobile devices
JWT based authentication for mobile device

Or you can PR us about these feature Please don't abuse this project by adding this to marketplace like codecanyon. Actually that really sucks :(

Support

Latest version of rails will be supported.

Security

If you discover any security related issue, please email bloggervista@gmail.com . All security issues will be addressed properly.

Contributors

Lead Contributor: Gary Traffanstedt

And thanks to other contributors also :)

Donation

If you would like to donate please contact me at bloggervista@gmail.com. I would also like to appreciate you thank you.

How can I thank you?

Why not star the github repo?

Don't forget me to ask any questions via facebook! or issue tab?

Thank you DHH and everybody at opensource.

Shirshak Bajgain

dalizard/Bee-Connect