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Description: Ground-up rewrite of Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum.
Homepage: http://activereload.lighthouseapp.com/projects/7537-altered-beast/
Clone URL: git://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast.git 
move some sql to the model
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file .gitignore Mon Jan 14 22:53:43 -0800 2008 Ignore vendor/rails and the cached js [NZKoz]
file .gitmodules Mon Sep 29 16:28:12 -0700 2008 rspec and rspec-rails as test config.gem deps ... [Chris Flipse]
file .rake_tasks Sat Dec 08 13:25:59 -0800 2007 initial commit [technoweenie]
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file Rakefile Sat Dec 08 13:25:59 -0800 2007 initial commit [technoweenie]
directory app/
directory config/
directory db/ Fri Jan 11 17:03:04 -0800 2008 update db (rake db:auto:migrate) [technoweenie]
directory lib/
directory public/ Wed Sep 24 16:39:31 -0700 2008 rails update [Chris Flipse]
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README.rdoc

Altered Beast

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

  • updated for Rails 2.0
  • 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
  • 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 2.0.x
    $ mkdir log
    $ rake tmp:create
    $ rake app:bootstrap

    Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.