Welcome to Vines

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

Additional documentation can be found at getvines.org.

Usage

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

Configuration

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

storage 'mongodb' do
  host 'localhost', 27017
  host 'localhost', 27018 # optional, connects to replica set
  database 'xmpp'
  tls true
  username ''
  password ''
  pool 5
end

Dependencies

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.

Development

$ script/bootstrap
$ script/tests

Contact

• David Graham david@negativecode.com

License

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