GoSocial

This includes common social widgets that are used too often in every web app these days. We often waste too much time integrating them. This gem provides a quick solution to that, saving your time and headaches. Currently there is limited support. Supported social-widgets/buttons are listed below :

• Like Button
• Like Box
• Comment Box

• Pinit Button
• Pinit_follow Button
• Pinit Embeduser

• Tweet Button
• Twitter_follow Button
• Twitter timeline

• Linkedin Share Button
• Linkedin Follow Company Button
• Linkedin Member Profile Button

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'go_social'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install go_social

Using SocialButtons is as simple as adding a single method call to your views:

ERB example:

// with optional parameters.

<%= like_button(:href => "url-to-be-liked") %>
<%= comment_box(:href => "url-to-be-liked" ) %>
<%= like_box(:href => "url-to-be-liked") %>

//data-pin-config can have values like above, beside or none
<%= pinit_button(:url=> "to-refer" , :media =>"image-url" , :description => "Amazing picture", "data-pin-config" => "above") %>
<%= pinit_follow_button(:title => "user-name") %>
<%= pinit_embeduser_button %>

<%= tweet_button(:via => "your-twitter-name") %>
<%= twitter_follow_button(:href => "twitter-user-url-to-follow") %>
<%= twitter_timeline("widget-id" => "your-widget-id", :href => "timeline-url") %>

//counter can have values like top, right or none. By default it is top.
<%= linkedin_share_button(:counter => "right", :url => "linkedin-url-of-user-or-comapny-page") %>
<%= linkedin_follow_company_button(:counter => "right", :id => "company-id-to-follow") %>
//format can have values like inline or hover
<%= linkedin_profile_button(:format => "hover", :text => "John Doe", :width => "400px" , :id => "linkedin-url-of-user-or-comapny-page") %>

Done. You'll have lovely Social Buttons all up in your view.

Of course, you can customize it. Depending on the type of button, there are different options.

• :href - The URL to like, the default is the current URL.
• :send - Whether to add a send button or not.
• :layout - Size and amount of social context next to button. Has 3 options :standard, :button_count, and :box_count
• :width - Width of the button
• "show-faces" - Show profile photos
• :action - Action name like 'like' or 'recommend'
• :font - Font for the button
• :colorscheme - Current colorscheme

More information can be found from Facebook

So, a simple like button can be added like this:

<%= like_button(:href => "url-to-be-liked") %>

• :url - The URL to share; the default is the current URL.
• :media - The image to be shared.
• :description - Description for the link.
• "count-layout" - Specify pinit count. It can be horizontal, vertical or none.

More information can be found from Pinterest

So, a simple pinit button can be added like this:

<%= pinit_button(:url => "your-url", :media => @picture.image.url, :description => "Amazing Picture") %>

• :url - The URL to share; the default is the current URL.
• :text - The text that will appear in the tweet; the default is "Check this out!"
• :via - The attribution. Defaults to "tweetbutton", but you should change that.
• :lang - Set the language for the tweet (no default).
• :related - Related Twitter accounts (no default).
• :count - The tweet count box position (values can be "none", "horizontal", or "vertical"; default is "vertical").

More information can be found from Twitter

So, if you wanted to tweet, attribute it to "loremipsum007", and add some custom text, all from a tweet button with a horizontal counter, you'd do this:

<%= tweet_button(:via => "loremipsum007", :url => "https://twitter.com/loremipsum007", :text => "AWESOME GEM.") %>

*In all cases, only the options you specify will be overridden; so if you only specify a new default :via, then the other defaults will stay intact.

• Add tests
• Give more control to customize buttons
• Add more social buttons.

If you have any issues with go_social, for which you cannot find the solution to the documentation, please add an issue on GitHub or fork the project and send a pull request.

Your suggestions are always welcome.

Extends special thanks to my colleagues and friends for their constant motivation.