Hi Guys, So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like vBulliten and phpBB. Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! An insult if you ask me. So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based forum? -Grant
RForum http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ Opinion http://home.leetsoft.com/opinion On 6/26/06, Grant Ammons <grant@fakeboard.com> wrote:> > Hi Guys, > > So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can > handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to > fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like > vBulliten and phpBB. > > Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! An > insult if you ask me. > > So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based forum? > > -Grant > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- ------------------------------- http://www.aidanf.net ------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060626/5fd972dc/attachment.html
Building a forum myself from scratch. You interested for some reason commercially, or do you just want to better vbulletin? I never want the bloat of vbulletin, but Opinion and RForum didn''t suit me. Rforum has the cool mailing list tie-in though. This is client work, so I don''t know if I will opensource it anytime yet. But we''ll see. ------------- Timothy Johnson www.foundinteractive.com On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Aidan Finn wrote:> RForum > http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ > > Opinion > http://home.leetsoft.com/opinion > > > On 6/26/06, Grant Ammons <grant@fakeboard.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can >> handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to >> fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like >> vBulliten and phpBB. >> >> Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! An >> insult if you ask me. >> >> So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based >> forum? >> >> -Grant >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails mailing list >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------- > http://www.aidanf.net > ------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
I would like to see not a forum app but a forum plugin of sorts. Or even just a generic forum that required access to as little as the User class and then could plug into many different apps with little or no configuration. Opinion would be great for that, but it''s a full featured forum application. I just want to add forum capabilities to my own app. For that, I guess I''ll have to start brewing my own. Jeremy On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Timothy Johnson wrote:> Building a forum myself from scratch. You interested for some > reason commercially, or do you just want to better vbulletin? > > I never want the bloat of vbulletin, but Opinion and RForum didn''t > suit me. Rforum has the cool mailing list tie-in though. > > This is client work, so I don''t know if I will opensource it > anytime yet. But we''ll see. > > ------------- > Timothy Johnson > www.foundinteractive.com > > > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Aidan Finn wrote: > >> RForum >> http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ >> >> Opinion >> http://home.leetsoft.com/opinion >> >> >> On 6/26/06, Grant Ammons <grant@fakeboard.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can >>> handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to >>> fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like >>> vBulliten and phpBB. >>> >>> Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum >>> products! An >>> insult if you ask me. >>> >>> So my question -- is there any current development of a rails- >>> based forum? >>> >>> -Grant >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rails mailing list >>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------- >> http://www.aidanf.net >> ------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails mailing list >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
On Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 12:17:04PM -0400, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:> I would like to see not a forum app but a forum plugin of sorts. Or even just a generic forum that required access to as little as the User > class and then could plug into many different apps with little or no configuration.it would be cool if the forum itself could ''plug in'' to sinks as well. eg database, email, irc, usenet, webservice. and read from remote webservice/aggregator, usenet, maildirs, mboxes, db.. and of course had good search, autoindexed when new content arrives> > Opinion would be great for that, but it''s a full featured forum application. I just want to add forum capabilities to my own app. For that, I > guess I''ll have to start brewing my own.there is acts_as_threaded, if you didn''t find it..
I would like to second the idea of a forum that you can drop in to any Rails app as a plugin, featuring the above-mentioned features as well as RSS feeds of course. It''s a tool that a lot of people could find useful in their custom apps. On 6/26/06, carmen <_@whats-your.name> wrote:> > On Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 12:17:04PM -0400, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > > I would like to see not a forum app but a forum plugin of sorts. Or even > just a generic forum that required access to as little as the User > > class and then could plug into many different apps with little or no > configuration. > > it would be cool if the forum itself could ''plug in'' to sinks as well. eg > database, email, irc, usenet, webservice. and read from remote > webservice/aggregator, usenet, maildirs, mboxes, db.. > > and of course had good search, autoindexed when new content arrives >-- "Impossible is nothing." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060626/c06f161c/attachment.html
Really very simple, we had categories topic and posts in less than 30 hours including some lovely ajaxian love added to it. ------------- Timothy Johnson www.foundinteractive.com On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:> I would like to see not a forum app but a forum plugin of sorts. Or > even just a generic forum that required access to as little as the > User class and then could plug into many different apps with little or > no configuration. > > Opinion would be great for that, but it''s a full featured forum > application. I just want to add forum capabilities to my own app. For > that, I guess I''ll have to start brewing my own. > > Jeremy > > On Jun 26, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Timothy Johnson wrote: > >> Building a forum myself from scratch. You interested for some reason >> commercially, or do you just want to better vbulletin? >> >> I never want the bloat of vbulletin, but Opinion and RForum didn''t >> suit me. Rforum has the cool mailing list tie-in though. >> >> This is client work, so I don''t know if I will opensource it anytime >> yet. But we''ll see. >> >> ------------- >> Timothy Johnson >> www.foundinteractive.com >> >> >> >> On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Aidan Finn wrote: >> >>> RForum >>> http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ >>> >>> Opinion >>> http://home.leetsoft.com/opinion >>> >>> >>> On 6/26/06, Grant Ammons <grant@fakeboard.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Guys, >>>> >>>> So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can >>>> handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to >>>> fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like >>>> vBulliten and phpBB. >>>> >>>> Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! >>>> An >>>> insult if you ask me. >>>> >>>> So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based >>>> forum? >>>> >>>> -Grant >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Rails mailing list >>>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >>>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------- >>> http://www.aidanf.net >>> ------------------------------- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Rails mailing list >>> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >>> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rails mailing list >> Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >> http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
Grant Ammons wrote:> > So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based > forum? >Here''s one that''s in use.. http://railsforum.com/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Grant Ammons wrote:> Hi Guys, > > So creating a forums application seems like something that rails > can handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came > to fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products > like vBulliten and phpBB. > Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! > An insult if you ask me. > So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based > forum?I wrote a very simple forum for Rails Day which I''m continuing to work on. http://www.frorum.net/ There has been some discussion on railsforum.com about a new Rails based forum. See this thread: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=39 - Brad
You are using one right now -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
We wrote a forum entirely in Rails for http://www.chowhound.com. There''s been some talk about CNET letting us open source it, but that may not happen for a few months so sit tight. I''ll be doing a series about how we built it on my blog in the coming weeks. -PJ http://pjhyett.com On 6/26/06, Brad Pauly <bpauly@gmail.com> wrote:> > On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Grant Ammons wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > So creating a forums application seems like something that rails > > can handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came > > to fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products > > like vBulliten and phpBB. > > Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! > > An insult if you ask me. > > So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based > > forum? > > I wrote a very simple forum for Rails Day which I''m continuing to > work on. http://www.frorum.net/ > > There has been some discussion on railsforum.com about a new Rails > based forum. See this thread: > > http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=39 > > - Brad > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
On Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 12:34:11PM -0700, PJ Hyett wrote:> We wrote a forum entirely in Rails for http://www.chowhound.com. > There''s been some talk about CNET letting us open source it, but that > may not happen for a few months so sit tight. I''ll be doing a series > about how we built it on my blog in the coming weeks.damn, chowhound redesign!. damn, chowhound owned by CNET~!? . i''m way behind the times. thanks for the tip..
David Smit wrote:> You are using one right nowHi. Ruby-forum is just a front end to the Rails mailing list (among others). The original poster posted directly to the list. While ruby-forum''s presentation is excellent, it does lead many people to write responses in a style that suits the forum UI, and to ignore the conventions of a mailing list (e.g. careful quoting of the post they are responding to). This is a real pain for the mailing list subscribers. Sorry to pick on your post as an example of this, but it is a good one :-) Justin
How do you get a digest of emails? -----Original Message----- From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org [mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Finn Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:57 AM To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: Re: [Rails] Why no forum app in rails yet? RForum http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac/ Opinion http://home.leetsoft.com/opinion On 6/26/06, Grant Ammons <grant@fakeboard.com> wrote: Hi Guys, So creating a forums application seems like something that rails can handle easily and well, and whatever implementation that came to fruition would be head and shoulders above existing products like vBulliten and phpBB. Even the existing rails forums are using php-based forum products! An insult if you ask me. So my question -- is there any current development of a rails-based forum? -Grant _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails -- ------------------------------- http://www.aidanf.net ------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060702/91685a28/attachment.html