Rails with PHPBB forums... How to do it

Rails
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Hi,

I like Ruby on rails for my web development, and I like PHPBB forums as
well.

I think wordpress, Jhoomla and PHPBB forms are the best thing happed to
PHP community.

And Rails is the best inspiration for all.

I would just like to icorporate PHP and wordpress inside my Rails
website.

I will be using MySQl as my database.

I wonder if anyone has implemented it with a smooth functioning. If yest
then pl. guide me more on this.

I am sure, many would like to go this way.

Pl. do not suggest us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something
more elegant

Thanks

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There are plenty of Rails alternatives to forums. There’s El Dorado for
one,
Beast too. I’m also developing my own forum “software” if you would like
to
try it out, it’s at GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Rahil K. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Pl. do not suggest us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something
more elegant

Thanks

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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Ryan B.

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I like Ruby on rails for my web development, and I like PHPBB forums as
well. I think wordpress, Jhoomla and PHPBB forms are the best thing
happed to PHP community. And Rails is the best inspiration for all. I
would just like to icorporate PHP and wordpress inside my Rails website.
I will be using MySQl as my database. I wonder if anyone has
implemented it with a smooth functioning. If yest then pl. guide me more
on this. I am sure, many would like to go this way. Pl. do not suggest
us to use Ruby CMS and Ruby Forums. I want something more elegant

My advice would be to look at something other than phpbb. I’ve done it.
It isn’t fun. I did it with 2.x (don’t recall which version) so maybe
it’s gotten better, but the only way to integrate the two were some ugly
hacks to create the appropriate database records in the forum database
on
user signup (our users are in our website, not in our forums) and then
to
hack up all the login/logout pages of the forums to make cookies work.
It
makes upgrading a real pain.

Also, our forum moderators can’t stand phpbb. For what that’s worth.

What I don’t understand is why every forum app out there assumes the
users
will be in its database. Seems none of them ship with login hooks
allowing you to easily authenticate against some external resource.
sigh

Maybe that’s all changed in newer releases, but if it hasn’t, I’d advise
you to look at something else.

-philip