# Need a simple forum or message board

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 10, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474 "2008-03-10T14:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474/1 "2008-03-10T14:04:46Z")

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I want to have a message board or forum in my site, I have looked at  
beast but have no clue how to use svn, and I have had no luck with  
savage beast either. Can anyone recommend a simple message board/forum  
that I could plugin and adjust with minimal effort.

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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474/2 "2008-03-10T15:12:34Z")

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Alan Red wrote:

> I want to have a message board or forum in my site, I have looked at  
> beast but have no clue how to use svn, and I have had no luck with  
> savage beast either. Can anyone recommend a simple message board/forum  
> that I could plugin and adjust with minimal effort.

To do anything with modern Ruby you are going to need some SVN. Get a  
simple SVN  
client and use it to download Beast. Both systems are worth the effort.

–  
Phlip  
[http://assert2.rubyforge.org/](http://assert2.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474/3 "2008-03-10T17:31:53Z")

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I second learning svn. Although I also can honestly say that if all you  
need is a simple message board, you may want to go with phpbb. Sure,  
it’s in php but its easier to deploy, has more features and is still  
entirely open source. I love ruby and rails but I find that for things  
such as simple wikis or forums that sticking to more robust php  
solutions is not always a bad thing.

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**Author:** ![megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@megax](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/megax)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-a-simple-forum-or-message-board/131474/4 "2008-03-10T18:50:50Z")

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Thanks for the help guys, I will look into using phpBB, this site is for  
a university project and there not helpin much ☹ so the info you give  
me means alot.