Family Hut is a simple application for those who want to share information among family members. The goal is to have a mini-social networking site mainly for photo exchange and archiving, but also for textual info and notes.

• Member accounts
• Members can invite other members by creating accounts for them
• Members have named photo albums
• Photo albums can contain any number of photos
• Photos can be uploaded one at a time or in bulk (up to 10 at a time)
• Easy photo uploads via AJAX without page reloads
• Photos have titles and descriptions
• Members can leave comments on photos
• Activity log shows entries for album creation, photo uploads and comments
• Time zones and i18n (currently English and Russian) are supported
• Collective blog with a feature to delete your own posts that are up to one hour old
• Summarized e-mail notifications (once every 2 hours)

So far I plan to add only:

• RSS feed for the activity log
• Hide posts over time (and have "show older" JS button that loads 10 more older posts)
• Guest accounts with access to selected albums

• Ruby 1.9.3
• Rails 3.1
• ImageMagick

1. Download the source:

   git clone http:https://github.com/alg/family_hut.git

2. Copy and update config files:

• config/database.yml.sample -> config/database.yml
• config/config.yml.sample -> config/config.yml
• config/environments/production.yml.sample -> config/environments/production.yml
• config/deploy.yml.sample -> config/deploy.yml

3. Setup the app:

   rake db:setup

The first user will be named first and will have password first. You can rename it as you like and start inviting other members.

Family Hut is Copyright © 2010-2011 Aleksey Gureiev. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the MIT-LICENSE file.