# Social networking site open source code?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219 "2007-02-28T23:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scot)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219/1 "2007-02-28T23:35:06Z")

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Is anyone aware of any open-source code that has the base already built  
for a social networking site? i.e. with messaging, friends lists etc…

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**Author:** ![scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scot)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219/2 "2007-03-01T00:59:47Z")

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On Feb 28, 2:56 pm, Mark [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Yeah,
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> It’s called get\_ur\_lazy\_ass\_of\_the\_couch\_and\_start\_programming\_it 😛

Nice. I think the pieces are there, many of them:

> **[GrabTheMic](https://sourceforge.net/projects/grabthemic)**
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> Download GrabTheMic for free. GrabTheMic is an Open Source implementation of community-driven news sites such as Digg (http://www.digg.com) and Reddit (http://www.reddit.com). It is powered by Ruby on Rails.

[http://www.missingmethod.com/2007/01/08/how-to-build-a-social-network-with-ruby-on-rails/](http://www.missingmethod.com/2007/01/08/how-to-build-a-social-network-with-ruby-on-rails/)

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**Author:** ![scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scot)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219/3 "2007-02-28T23:56:13Z")

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Yeah,

It’s called get\_ur\_lazy\_ass\_of\_the\_couch\_and\_start\_programming\_it 😛

scot wrote:

> Is anyone aware of any open-source code that has the base already built  
> for a social networking site? i.e. with messaging, friends lists etc…

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**Author:** ![scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@scot](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scot)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/social-networking-site-open-source-code/87219/4 "2007-03-01T04:13:09Z")

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[phpizabi.net](http://phpizabi.net) is a php myspace clone and is pretty popular, you might  
want to give it a try.

I will definitely check out the rails grabthemic sometime soon!

Andy