Viode is an open source Q&A (question and answer) community platform built with Ruby on Rails.

• Categories
• Category subscriptions
• Labels (tags)
• Ask and answer questions
• Anonymous questions and answers
• Votes for questions and answers
• Search questions and labels
• User access levels (groups)
• User points (reputation)
• Star questions (bookmark)
• SEO friendly
• Can be used as a discussion board
• And many more.. Stay tuned.

Requirements: Ruby 1.9+, PostgreSQL, GraphicsMagick (or ImageMagick), Elasticsearch.
System requirements: In several installations, Viode performs well on 512MB Linux (CentOS) instance and 128MB FreeBSD instance. Your mileage may vary.

See INSTALL.md for detailed installation guide.

Viode has a user points system (aka user reputation). You can configure it by editing config/secrets.yml file.

Here are the basics of the system:

• Each new user gets 100 points
• User gets 2 points when his question gets starred
• User gets 10 points when his answer or question gets upvoted
• User loses 10 points when his answer or question gets downvoted

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guides.

Join the team!

We are looking for new team members. Regardless of where you are and how much you know about programming, If you are interested, please apply.

Released under the BSD 2-clause license. See LICENSE.txt for details.