Sociar is an open source social networking platform. It's geared towards customization, offering you all the flexibility you'll need to build your own social network based on it.
The underlying architecture is provided by the Ramaze web framework.
Sociar provides
Currently Sociar is available on github, for the installation you can either use git or download a tarball directly from the Sociar github page
git clone git://github.com/manveru/sociar
First you'll need the dependencies installed:
gem install faker erubis scaffolding_extensions xml-simple maruku thin \
rack haml sequel sqlite3-ruby configuration ruby-openid
Also, make sure to have the latest version of Ramaze, you get get it from github as well.
git clone git://github.com/manveru/ramaze
git clone git://github.com/manveru/sociar cd sociar git branch ticgit origin/ticgit ti list