Garry and I are at RubyConf 2007 right now and we were excited about all upcoming and just-released projects people have shown off here and so we decided to have a mini-rockdown on Pledgie while we were here face-to-face.

So without further preambling, I am announcing that we've added non-reciprocal and reciprocal relationships between users of Pledgie. In plain English this means you can now have a variety of friendships, which do or do not requires other users to know and or approve those relationships. Here is how it breaks down:

Contacts & Supporters are one way relationships, anyone can add any other user as a contact without needing approval from the added user.

Friendships are two way relationships which, require both parties to agree to be friends. If you request someone's friendship they will show up as a contact until they accept your request.

We'll be fleshing out this functionality in the coming months and make it more useful than yet another site to collect friends on!

Thanks to everyone at RubyConf 2007 who gave us positive feedback on Pledgie and who are using it for their own projects.