Altered Beast

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

• full i18n (with German and English support)
• updated for Rails 2.3.3
• 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
• internationalization via the I18n framework

Check out the code via git:

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

INSTALLATION

    # download altered_beast
    # gem install rails 2.3.3
    $ mkdir log
    $ rake tmp:create
    $ rake app:bootstrap

    Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.
    Start the application with script/server and visit http://localhost:3000 to
    visit your new forum.