Viode

Viode is an open source Q&A (question and answer) community platform built with Ruby on Rails.

Features

Categories
Category subscriptions
Labels (tags)
Ask and answer questions
Anonymous questions and answers
Votes for questions and answers
Search questions and labels
User access levels (groups)
User points (reputation)
Star questions (bookmark)
SEO friendly
Can be used as a discussion board
And many more.. Stay tuned.

Installation

Requirements: Ruby 1.9+, PostgreSQL, GraphicsMagick (or ImageMagick), Elasticsearch.
System requirements: In several installations, Viode performs well on 512MB Linux (CentOS) instance and 128MB FreeBSD instance. Your mileage may vary.

See INSTALL.md for detailed installation guide.

Points

Viode has a user points system (aka user reputation). You can configure it by editing config/secrets.yml file.

Here are the basics of the system:

Each new user gets 100 points
User gets 2 points when his question gets starred
User gets 10 points when his answer or question gets upvoted
User loses 10 points when his answer or question gets downvoted

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guides.

Join the team!

We are looking for new team members. Regardless of where you are and how much you know about programming, If you are interested, please apply.

License

Released under the BSD 2-clause license. See LICENSE.txt for details.