ActsAsConversable

This acts_as_conversable plugin provides mixin conversation functionality for any model.

Installation

• install plugin ./script/plugin install git://github.com/mbulat/acts_as_conversable.git

  or use git submodule

git submodule add git://github.com/mbulat/acts_as_conversable.git vendor/plugins/acts_as_conversable

• generate migration files ./script/generate conversable

• run migrations rake db:migrate

Example

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_conversable
end

Starting a conversation

Generate some users that want to converse (these are whatever model(s) you mark acts_as_conversable)

@user_one = User.create!(:name => 'George')
@user_two = User.create!(:name => 'Gracie')

Create a conversation

@conversation = Conversation.create!(:subject => 'This weekend')

Invite users to participate in the conversation

@conversation_participant_one = ConversationParticipant.create!(:conversation => @conversation, :participant => @user_one)
@conversation_participant_two = ConversationParticipant.create!(:conversation => @conversation, :participant => @user_two)

List conversations your users are a part of

>> @user_one.conversations
=> [#<Conversation id: 1, subject: "This weekend", created_at: "2009-07-21 16:47:50", updated_at: "2009-07-21 16:47:50">]

Sending messages

Create a message within a conversation, and choose the message sender and the recipient

@message = Message.create!(:conversation => @conversation, :body => "Let's go for a hike.", :sender => @user_one, :receiver => @user_two)

List a user's sent messages

>> @user_one.sent_messages
=> [#<Message id: 1, conversation_id: 1, subject: nil, body: "Let's go for a hike.", sender_id: 1, sender_type: "User", receiver_id: 2, receiver_type: "User", created_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22", updated_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22">]

List a user's received messages

>> @user_two.received_messages
=> [#<Message id: 1, conversation_id: 1, subject: nil, body: "Let's go for a hike.", sender_id: 1, sender_type: "User", receiver_id: 2, receiver_type: "User", created_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22", updated_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22">]

List all the message for a given user's conversation

>> @user_one.conversations[0].messages
[#<Message id: 1, conversation_id: 1, subject: nil, body: "Let's go for a hike.", sender_id: 1, sender_type: "User", receiver_id: 2, receiver_type: "User", created_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22", updated_at: "2009-07-21 17:23:22">, #<Message id: 2, conversation_id: 1, subject: nil, body: "Sounds like a date!", sender_id: 2, sender_type: "User", receiver_id: 1, receiver_type: "User", created_at: "2009-07-21 17:54:14", updated_at: "2009-07-21 17:54:14">]

To Do

Add the ability to create messages with multiple recipients

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Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Bulat, released under the MIT license