Overview

HasFriendship is an innovative gem designed to enhance your ActiveRecord models by enabling seamless friendship functionalities. Whether you're developing a social networking application or simply want to incorporate friend management features, HasFriendship provides the necessary tools to facilitate sending, accepting, and declining friend requests effortlessly. With its self-referential polymorphic association, this gem makes it easy for developers to manage user relationships directly within their models.

Getting started with HasFriendship is a breeze. By simply adding has_friendship to your ActiveRecord model, you can unlock a range of features that simplify the management of friendships. The gem also includes a Rake task to install necessary migrations, ensuring integration into your project is smooth and painless.

Features

Quick Setup: Integrate friendship features into any ActiveRecord model by just adding a single line of code, has_friendship.
Friendship Management: Users can easily send, accept, and decline friend requests, providing a straightforward way to manage relationships.
Blocking Feature: Implement a blocking mechanism to prevent specific users from sending requests or removing friendships, enhancing user experience and safety.
Friendship Types: Easily categorize and access friends with four distinct types: requested friends, pending friends, blocked friends, and confirmed friends.
Custom Validations: Tailor friendship logic by implementing a friendship_errors method in your Friendable model for more control over how friendships are established.
Callbacks Support: Utilize built-in callbacks to trigger custom methods during friendship operations, adding flexibility to your application.
Migration Support: Automatically generate and manage the friendship table migration with an easy-to-use Rake task.
Testing Framework: Includes RSpec for running tests, ensuring the gem works seamlessly with your chosen versions of Rails and maintaining compatibility across different environments.

Has Friendship

Has_friendship