# Integrating vbulletin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798 "2006-02-14T18:14:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/1 "2006-02-14T18:14:20Z")

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Has anyone successfully integrated (embedded) vbulletin into a rails  
app? I would be curious to see if/how this worked.

RForum still seems quite beta so I am looking for something a little  
more tried and true.

thanks  
adam

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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/2 "2006-02-14T18:20:25Z")

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On 2/14/06, Adam D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Has anyone successfully integrated (embedded) vbulletin into a rails  
> app? I would be curious to see if/how this worked.
> 
> RForum still seems quite beta so I am looking for something a little  
> more tried and true.

I have not done any work with vbulletin, but have built in support for  
phpBB  
in my Rails app. This isn’t “full” support (ie, not all operations are  
supported, in fact not even all tables are mapped), but you can do  
things  
such as creating new threads, query a given users last post, etc. If  
there  
is interest (from you, or someone else who sees this), I will share what  
I’ve done. I’ve been using it in production for several months, and it  
hasn’t thrown my phpBB board into any convulsions 😉

Matt

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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/3 "2006-02-14T18:47:49Z")

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i would be interested in the work you have done. You can send it off  
or on list, if you dont mind.

thanks a bunch  
adam

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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/4 "2006-02-14T21:07:52Z")

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i completely agree. Vbulletin and the likes have been out for quite a  
long time, and have been thru a lot of stress testing. I see no reason  
to re-invent the wheel here.

Any integration help would be greatly appreciated.

adam

On 14 Feb 2006 19:19:08 -0000, Mikkel B.

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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/5 "2006-02-14T20:22:06Z")

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> > Matt  
> > Please do!!!

There are many good forum package written in php…i see no reason to  
implement a rails forum…but rails integration with exsisting packages  
are VERY interesting…

Mikkel B.

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**Author:** ![adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@adamdorsey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamdorsey)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/integrating-vbulletin/53798/6 "2006-02-14T21:44:16Z")

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On 2/14/06, Adam D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> i would be interested in the work you have done. You can send it off  
> or on list, if you dont mind.
> 
> thanks a bunch  
> adam

Okay, check out  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/PhpBB+Integration](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/PhpBB+Integration).  
My original post to the wiki was from some time ago, so I went ahead and  
added some additional stuff at the bottom. If you need any  
clarification,  
don’t hesistate to ask. Like I said, I’ve been using this in production  
for  
quite some time without any problems.

As far as vBulletin integration is concerned, I’ve never actually  
administered a vbulletin board before, but I would take a wild guess  
that  
the complexity regarding Rails integration to be about the same.  
Basically,  
all you need to understand to get it working is:

1. Figure out how they do sessions (ie, where is the informatoin stored  
on  
the DB, what are the names of the cookies)

2. Create your user model to incoroporate what you’ve learned above

3. Understand what tables and fields are modified when someone creates a  
topic, and mimic this behaviour.

I’ve found integration with my phpBB board useful for things such as  
News  
that gets posted to the main website which is _also_ automatically  
posted to  
the forums to create a place for discussion, etc. ([adventuresdawn.com](http://adventuresdawn.com))

Hope that helps.

Matt