# Displaying Friends Activity

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-friends-activity/172746>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 27, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-friends-activity/172746 "2009-07-27T12:53:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arun\_kumar\_Agrahri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@Arun\_kumar\_Agrahri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arun_kumar_Agrahri)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-friends-activity/172746/1 "2009-07-27T12:53:38Z")

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Hi,

I’m wondering the popular methods to display friends activity on  
user’s profile page.  
Any docs or tutorial will be helpful. I’m a newbie in RoR

Thanks,  
Arun

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**Author:** ![Arun\_kumar\_Agrahri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@Arun\_kumar\_Agrahri](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Arun_kumar_Agrahri)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/displaying-friends-activity/172746/2 "2009-07-28T19:09:19Z")

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Railscast episode on creating the Friend relationship.

> **[\#163 Self-Referential Association - RailsCasts](http://railscasts.com/episodes/163-self-referential-association)**
>
> Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.

Once you have the friend relationship you just need a way to track the  
activity for a user. This could be just the relationship between posts/  
comments/etc. ordered by recent submission. Or you could use userstamp  
to track all changes of a model.