Best way to add Disqus comments to a Rails application?

Question

Is there anything better than the Disqus Ruby Gem? Perhaps something geared specifically towards Rails?

(The Disqus gem might be the best option, I just haven't been able to find much color one way or the other).

Answer 1

You can always just sign up for an account for your site and stick their generic javascript into your page where you want it:

http://disqus.com/comments/universal/

Answer 2

I looked into this myself. There's a couple of Ruby gems, but Norman's disqus gem that you listed was the only one I could find with Rails helpers.

Answer 3

The Ruby gem's helper just embeds Disqus' native Javascript, which is bad because it loads the Disqus comments synchronously.

Rather than make users wait, I did some hacking and got the comments to load asynchronously. Check out my blog post on the subject.