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== Welcome to EngineY
EngineY is an easy to use social network framework implemented in Ruby on Rails that is easy to customize and deploy as your own powerful and feature packed social media site. Empower users with their own blogs. Enhance collaboration with forums, groups and events. Let your users post Twitter-like status messages. Track all the activity on your site with a live activity stream. Build a custom client to access all of your social data using EngineY's RESTful API.


== Getting Started

To see an example of a running instance of EngineY, visit the Michigan Ruby Community at http://www.rubymi.org


Installation

EngineY requires the rmagick gem. To correctly install that gem along with the correct version of Imagemagick for your platform see this FAQ:
http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html
Edit the config/database.yml file to configure a local database for use with EngineY.
Run the following three commands in order:

ruby db:create:all
ruby db:migrate
rake railsnet:db:mycompany_populate
This will create the database with the correct schema and populate it with data for a sample site. This will allow you to run the application and have a look around. You will be able to login with the following id and password:
User ID: admin
Password: admin
Getting Help/Support

Any questions that you have about using EngineY or developing with EngineY should be posted to the EngineY Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/enginey.