Welcome to Vines

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

Additional documentation can be found at getvines.org.

$ gem install vines vines-couchdb
$ 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 'couchdb' do
  host 'localhost'
  port 6984
  database 'xmpp'
  tls true
  username ''
  password ''
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.