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What is a good, open source RoR 3 forum that can easily integrated to an existing application?

Optional features:

  • OpenID support
  • Haml/SCSS templates
  • Support for smilies, YouTube, images, etc
  • I'm probably going to change it alot, and I'm still pretty weak in Ruby, so clean, commented code with good practices would be great.

Thanks :)

+1  A: 

The Rails community has never been focused on developing Ruby/Rails forums, conversely to other languages such as PHP. The evidence of that is a really old news talking about one of the forums prototype ever produces in Rails.

You can still found traces of Beast somewhere, but the real answer is that there's no interesting open source Rails forum available from the time being.

Simone Carletti
Should I write my own then?
TTT
Could you use uservoice.com?
Brian Maltzan
You have several alternatives: 1. install a forum developed with a different language and use API to talk with it from your Rails app 2. develop your own solution 3. use a third party service
Simone Carletti
I think I will develop my own solution. Thanks!
TTT
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have you looked at Forulio ? Seems like you can build on it . Looks decent to start with.

Shreyas Satish