Welcome to Vines

Vines is a scalable XMPP chat server, using EventMachine for asynchronous IO. This gem provides support for storing user data in SQL databases with Active Record.

Additional documentation can be found at getvines.org.

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

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

storage 'sql' do
  adapter 'postgresql'
  host 'localhost'
  port 5432
  database 'xmpp'
  username ''
  password ''
  pool 5
end

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.

$ script/bootstrap
$ script/tests

• David Graham david@negativecode.com

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