Question

There’s a Rails forum gem I like called Forem https://github.com/radar/forem However, the gem author made some changes to it that negatively impact my intended use. He added a moderation tool, whereby all new/unapproved users need their first post approved before it’s displayed to the forum. This essentially mean that a moderator needs to be present all the time or the forum will have a hard time get going. This is a recent addition to the app.

Since github is version control, I’m wondering if there’s a way to clone or use (I just want to use it, not modify it) an older version of the gem so I can use a version before the moderation was added.

Thanks if you can help.

Answer 1

You have some options (all goes into Gemfile):

gem 'forem', github: 'radar/forem', ref: 'ref that you want'

or

gem 'forem', github: 'radar/forem', tag: 'tag that you want'

or

gem 'forem', github: 'radar/forem', branch: 'branch that you want'

All of it is described in Gemfile docs