# Plugin for personal messages system?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-personal-messages-system/171506>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 3, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-personal-messages-system/171506 "2009-07-03T16:44:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubyfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@rubyfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfox)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-personal-messages-system/171506/1 "2009-07-03T16:44:03Z")

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Hi all,

I’m kind of surprised there is no maintained plugin which can get me  
out-of-the box personal messages system.

The only two close things google cames up with is  
[GitHub - psergi/acts\_as\_messageable: private messaging plugin for rails](http://github.com/psergi/acts_as_messageable/tree/master) plugin (I  
would love to have some generic views also created for me, but this  
one doesn’t seem to offer that).

And pretty old tutorial  
[http://www.novawave.net/public/rails\_messaging\_tutorial.html](http://www.novawave.net/public/rails_messaging_tutorial.html)  
.

And that’s it.

I guess my only option then is to cannibalize some other open source  
project to get required functionality, but that is also on the verge  
of “better to write my own”?

TIA,  
Evgeniy

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**Author:** ![rubyfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/4bbf92/32.png) [@rubyfox](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyfox)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-for-personal-messages-system/171506/2 "2009-07-03T19:03:42Z")

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A quick search of the plugin directory turned up these results, in  
addition  
to the plugin you mentioned:  
Easy\_Messages [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/easy\_messages](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/easy_messages)  
Restful\_Easy\_Messages[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful\_easy\_messages](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_easy_messages)  
Simple Private  
Messages[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/simple\_private\_messaging](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/simple_private_messaging)  
acts\_as\_emailable  
[http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts\_as\_emailable](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_emailable)  
has\_messages [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/has\_messages](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/has_messages)

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