Ben Yates wrote:

I can code a bit, but I'm not a programmer by any means, and I kind of need some help (ruby on rails is hard) or just answers to questions about how to do stuff.

For the ratings part, there's an existing MediaWiki extension that could serve as a starting-point:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AjaxRatingScript

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