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Social Media Sharing Buttons Gem for Ruby on Rails

I am trying to find a good gem that will allow me to add social media sharing buttons to my Rails 3 app (similar to the Wordpress plugins AddThis). The key sites that I want to enable sharing with are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. I want to allow two levels of sharing i.e. the ability to share a link to the site as a whole and the ability to share specific pages or posts on the site. Thanks in advance!

What gems would you recommend?

Solution

  • As you shop for these widgets you should not think in terms of Rails solutions but Javascript solutions. Since Rails had adopted JQuery as it default JS framework you can also look in that direction.

    Here are a few: http://plugins.jquery.com/?s=social

    I recommend shareBox