Welcome to Vines

Vines is a scalable XMPP chat server, using EventMachine for asynchronous IO. This gem provides support for storing user data in Redis.

Additional documentation can be found at getvines.org.

Usage

$ gem install vines vines-redis
$ vines init wonderland.lit
$ cd wonderland.lit && vines start

Vines requires Ruby 1.9.3 or better. Instructions for installing the needed OS packages, as well as Ruby itself, are available at getvines.org/ruby.

Add the following configuration block to a virtual host definition in the server's conf/config.rb file.

storage 'redis' do
  host 'localhost'
  port 6379
  database 0
  password ''
end

$ script/bootstrap
$ script/tests

Vines is released under the MIT license. Check the LICENSE file for details.