If you just want to know how to install - please head to the Installation instructions. Details on getting things running on Heroku are included.
Two reasons. The vast majority of messageboard, or "forum", software out there is garbage. And I can't find any current and maintained projects running on Rails (specifically version 3).
This project started years ago as a side project to keep busy while the first big dot-com stuff hit the fan and things on my plate at work got real lean. Back then this was built on PHP with Mysql - like many things. The users knew what they wanted and I wanted to be able to add features without digging through someone else's cess-pool of mangled code. I wanted my own cess-pool of mangled code.
Eventually I discovered RoR and re-developed everything with Rails. That version was terrible.
The second version? Also terrible.
So, that's right - this is it's 3rd Rails-based incarnation. This time with a full(-ish) test suite.
The Thredded code-base is by no means a pinnacle in software engineering. I won't be winning any code-quality competitions anytime soon. However, I'm trying my damndest to iterate and improve everything in here constantly. The important thing right now is that this works well for its users and is fun to use. What's under the hood will get better. For those familiar with the theory of the human "lizard brain" you might notice this admission as my method to push aside the nagging voice and just put this out for people to use.
Poke around the source and take a look. If there's anything that's been overlooked or approached with an ignorant eye, let me know and send me an email. Or, even better (of course), fork, commit and send a pull request. I'm open to any and all thoughts.
- ImageMagick is installed
- postgres (search currently only works with pg, using pg's fulltext search capabilities)
Whatever's stricken out still needs to be implemented
- Security per messageboard - private, public or logged in users only
- Permissions to post - anonymous, members or logged in users only
- Attaching images to posts
- Attaching documents to posts
- Content Filters - bbcode, textile
- Locking threads
- Sticky / Pinned threads
- Private threads
- Fully theme'able
- Placement of attached images to posts
Logging in via twitter, github, facebook, linked in, and Gmail- Search
Import and Export
Using zeus now instead of Spork/Guard. Run zeus start in a separate terminal. Switch to your active terminal while zeus is running in that separate terminal and ..
To run the entire suite you can run zeus rake, and for either rspec or cucumber zeus rake spec and zeus rake cucumber respectively.
For more information visit the zeus repo on github : https://github.com/burke/zeus