Question

Wanted to know if someone had a suggestion on code or maybe there’s a plugin (!) which would allow very basic forum functionality that I can integrate into my application so that it is single sign-on?

Otherwise…maybe a tutorial on how to build one from scratch and I just leverage our existing authentication?

Thanks!

I looked at the following thread but no answer was selected so just checking:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2549/what-is-good-forum-software-to-add-to-an-existing-rails-application

Hi, did more research, this so far seems to be the best, anyone had experience and a sample site I can check out?

http://github.com/radar/rboard/tree/master

Has anyone worked with this plugin? http://github.com/bscofield/bagpipes/tree/master

Answer 1

Another possibility, which I have used in the way you describe, is Beast. It’s simple but yet nice and functional. It doesn’t integrate as a plugin, but it’s not difficult to use it in your site and pass your user session to it.

(Use the newer version called AlteredBeast: http://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast/tree/master)