# \[ANN\] Zioko.com - built with Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-zioko-com-built-with-rails/103942>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 11, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-zioko-com-built-with-rails/103942 "2007-05-11T20:18:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![elliterate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/9de053/32.png) [@elliterate](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elliterate)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-zioko-com-built-with-rails/103942/1 "2007-05-11T20:18:11Z")

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Hey list,

I’ve been working on a website, [http://www.zioko.com](http://www.zioko.com) for a while now  
(too  
long!) and it’s finally time to get this thing out the door, or it might  
never happen!

Zioko is a place for people to create groups around their particular  
interests. Once a group has been created, or you join an existing group.  
You  
can post links, upload images, videos, podcasts and post messages in a  
forum. Content is rated by recent popularity much like [Digg.com](http://Digg.com). You can  
also define friendships, respect other users and send private messages.

For example, I’ve gone ahead and created a group for Ruby on Rails:  
[http://zioko.com/group/Ruby\_on\_Rails](http://zioko.com/group/Ruby_on_Rails)  
You might use this group by posting interesting links in the Links  
section,  
uploading images related to Rails (I believe someone mentioned a picture  
of  
Rails on the N800 a few days ago), uploading video tutorials, uploading  
Rails podcasts or chatting about Rails in the forum.

The site is still pretty (very) rough around the edges, and there a  
number  
of issues I’m still aware of, yet I’m sure you can appreciate that I  
want to  
give it some exposure, it’s been behind closed doors to _way_ too long  
🙂  
There are a shed load more features I’d like to implement for maximum  
“wow”  
factor, but I guess those will have to come later. There is a feedback  
form  
in the footer so you can let me know which features you miss the most.

To fulfil the inner geek, her are some technical specs:

Served up by Mongrels, balanced by Apache.  
Capistrano for deployment  
MySQL  
Liquid Templates used for group pages (this to allow people to edit  
their  
groups CSS and HTML, I had to defer this feature until a later date  
though)  
ffmpeg used for video transcoding  
and a bunch of plugins thanks to you, the wonderful Rails community 🙂

I hope you like it, and ultimately find a use for it!

Cheers  
Ian