courtenay / altered_beast

Ground-up rewrite of Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum.

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Altered Beast

The popular rails-based Beast forum, rewritten from the ground up with the same database and views.

  • updated for Rails 2.1.1
  • using rspec/model_stubbing
  • added a state machine for user logins
  • built-in multi-site support
  • spam protection from akismet/viking
  • forum authorization rules (public/private/invitation)
  • email and atom feed support
  • xml/json API (not 100% tested yet, fixing soon)
  • highline based easy console installer

Help desired via git: 

    git clone git://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast.git

INSTALLATION

    # download altered_beast
    # gem install rails 2.1.1
    $ mkdir log
    $ rake tmp:create
    $ rake app:bootstrap

    Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.