Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that
includes a Family News section, and an Address Book. Currently,
there is no documentation on installing the Rails application itself
(hence the 0.9 version number).
Once installed, Family Connection guides the family website
administrator through a simple two-page setup process. The web
application restricts access to family members by requiring the
“family password” given during the initial setup process.
The Family News is like a blog where family members can post events,
announcements, recipes, family anecdotes, stories or reviews. It
includes the ability to upload pictures with each news item. The
Family News features the ability to have email messages sent directly
to the application so that the application can post the message up
immediately. The news posts also support tagging.
The Address Book shows a listing of all family members with their
thumbnail pictures. It is secure in that only family members who
have registered at the site can view the information.
Currently, Family Connection is only available via Subversion:
The 1.0 release will feature documentation and a downloadable
package; however, because this is a stable and quite usable
application already I thought it would be good to make it available
immediately.
Family Connection is an easy-to-setup online hub for your family that
includes a Family News section, and an Address Book. Currently, there
is no documentation on installing the Rails application itself (hence
the 0.9 version number).
Sounds like a great idea. I’ll look into it later. Are there, by any
chance, any screenshots available?
I’ll second this. Any more information on this project would be
fantastic. The RubyForge page is pretty sparse on details. This
sounds like something that I would be interested in evaluating.
The Family News is like a blog where family members can post events,
Currently, Family Connection is only available via Subversion: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/
what’s the best way to bootstrap the db? i’ve got the db configured
alright
and see db/schema.rb… now what?
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what’s the best way to bootstrap the db? i’ve got the db
configured alright
and see db/schema.rb… now what?
I did rake db_schema_import (or whatever that poorly named task is
called), and then rake migrate. But then I gave up when it need
RMagick (was on my win32 box @ work).
I didn’t look at the db after that, but did see the db file (using
sqlite3) was there afterward.
what’s the best way to bootstrap the db? i’ve got the db configured
alright
and see db/schema.rb… now what?
I did rake db_schema_import (or whatever that poorly named task is called),
and then rake migrate. But then I gave up when it need RMagick (was on my
win32 box @ work).
This is a wonderful app!! I was planning to build my own family portal,
but
instead I can build on what you have already started (and commit any
good
changes back to you).
Thanks for doing this! It can really help facilitate communications
between
distanced family members.
Great work! I’ve browsed through the online demo but not the code yet.
Have
you planned for any I18N so far? I would love to install and expand this
for
my family but I need to do Spanish for that. I can translate the code
but
then I thought a more international approach would help others if we
setup
language files or something else (haven’t investigated the I18N rails
stuff
yet).
Wow. That’s quite an offer. I haven’t tackled anything with i18n
before, but I’m willing to give it a try. Do you have a recommended
‘plugin’ or package to use with Rails? There have been several
around for a while, but I’m not one to know which is best.
