Reputation System for Rails

Question

I'm on Rails 4, and searching a Reputation System Gem similar to Stack Overflow's System.

The Popular's seems to be Merit and Twitter's Active Reputation System.

But i don't know which to choose, it seems that Twitter's Active Reputation System has a larger community (as i'm fairly new to rails), this would help me a lot. But i cant be wrong too.

I also find The Twitter Active Reputation System for Rails 4 but from another User

As i scooped through the 2 Gem's i did not quite get which is more similar to Stack Overflow's Reputation System.

If someone could enlighten me on these 2 Gem's on which to user for the purpose i need them, i would be very thankful :)

rmagnum2002 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-23T00:30:25.110

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From documentation of Active Reputation System:

Let's say we want to keep track of user karma in Q&A site where user karma is sum of questioning skill and answering skill. Questioning skill is sum of votes for user's questions and Answering skill is sum of average rating of user's answers.

looks to me like it describes exactly your case. I would go with this and probably would use merit gem too to have badges at some point for user.

edited Sep 23 '13 at 00:30

answered Sep 23 '13 at 00:10

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Hey Magnum, thanks for answering. As i understood from looking at the gem, it doesn't have reputation right ? It's just for votes. I'm looking for a solution where User's get awarded for answering and etc. – Mini John Sep 23 '13 at 00:14
I Updated my Question with a link to a Rails4:branch for Active Rep System. Can you give it a look? In my case i need Votes AND Reputation AND Badges :) Just like Stackoverflow. What do you recommend ? – Mini John Sep 23 '13 at 00:26
updated answer, I would use both as merit gem has the functionality for badges. using both can't do no harm. – rmagnum2002 Sep 23 '13 at 00:32
Cool Thanks, Should i user the Branch:Rails4 from that other Guy or should i go with the official Twitter branch. (PS I'm on Rails 4) – Mini John Sep 23 '13 at 00:34
you can use the one you found for rails 4 and later switch to the official one if that would be needed. – rmagnum2002 Sep 23 '13 at 00:36
About merit. you can avoid using merit if you create your own badge model and assign it to user when user acheive for example a certain number of karma or some other things that he might do.. like after adding 10 comments he will get the "Commenter" badge. Try to build badge functionality without Merit first. – rmagnum2002 Sep 23 '13 at 00:38

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 09:33

Merit keeps track of user's karma in the form of points, and also badges à la StackOverflow. It also has a concept of rankings, which would be useful for example for "starred-restaurant".

It is similar to SO, and I can't help with the comparison cause I didn't yet use Twitter's Active Reputation System.

Reputation System for Rails

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