Federails - a Rails engine that brings ActivityPub to Rails applications

Programming Ruby
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Well, the title is a bit lying as the engine is a work in progress.

This discussion follows this thread; its goal is to discuss about the gem, how you plan to use it, and what you want to see in it…

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Well, the path it’s taking is something like that, for an existing application with users and an Article model that should have ActivityPub “capability”:

  1. Setup:

    # Gemfile
gem 'federails'

    # Copy initializer and other configuration files
rails generate federails:install
# Copy migrations
rails federails:install:migrations

  2. Configure User model

    class User < ApplicationRecord
  include Federails::User

  #...
end

  3. Configure Article model

    class Article < ApplicationRecord
  include Federails::Federable

  belongs_to :user, optional: true # MUST be optional now

  #...
end

There will be some extra steps to create custom migrations (publish existing content, attach actors to existing articles, etc…), this is only where I am in the gem development now.

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Version 0.1.0 is now available on Rubygem; feedback is welcome :slight_smile: