The idea of developing a social networking platform has always excited to web developers and they needs to know about basic understanding of Ruby on Rails, Coffee Script, and PostgreSQL. In this article, we will let you know how to build a social network using Ruby on Rails.

Below are the Prerequisites for Build a Social Network Using Ruby on Rails.

Ruby & Rails: https://gorails.com/setup

Postgres: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-...

Herokutoolbelt: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/

Git(Optional):http://git-scm.com/downloads

In social media, the entire user gets an access to the posts and latest information on their profiles. Any good quality social media platform would provide real-time updates of posts in the user feeds.  

First step you can start building social networking app with RoR by running command that creates the Rails application with default gems that are mentioned in the code file. The command is rails new app name.

After running command is modifying the gemfile by adding and removing gems from the list of defaults

1. Run Rails

2. Asset Pipeline

3. Authentication

4. Posts & Events

5. Create Post

6. Carrier wave

7. Create Event

If you would like to know more details then continue reading Build a Social Network with ROR