# Re Comments **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [February 7, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421 "2008-02-07T15:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/1 "2008-02-07T15:47:09Z")
I would like my Radiant installation to have comments. I see that there is an extension for comments. Is this the way to go? Or is it better to set up a forum on the side? For example El Derado Best regards, Per-Olof H. ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/2 "2008-02-07T15:50:17Z")
Per-olof Hermansson wrote: > I would like my Radiant installation to have comments. > > I see that there is an extension for comments. > > Is this the way to go? Or is it better to set up a forum on the side? > For example El Derado I see that my radiant installation is version 5.2 I understand that I need to upgrade. My installation is with [www.site5.com](http://www.site5.com) and it is a Unix-machine, which I am not so used to. Is this easy? (to upgrade…) Thanks!! Per-Olof ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 9:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/3 "2008-02-10T09:19:41Z")
Per-olof Hermansson wrote: > I see that my radiant installation is version 5.2 > > I understand that I need to upgrade. My installation is with > [www.site5.com](http://www.site5.com) and it is a Unix-machine, which I am not so used to. > > Is this easy? (to upgrade…) > > Thanks!! > > Per-Olof I think you can freeze edge - you’ll be able to find the instructions on the Radiant CMS documentation site (or just do a search for radiant freeze edge). That said, in response to your earlier question, in my mind, there’s a difference between comments and a forum. It could be said that a commenting module is essentially a forum with the first comments being a blog post or an article or something. In that sense, one could just use a forum. My sites [http://onghu.com/te](http://onghu.com/te) and [http://openutk.org](http://openutk.org) are actually engineering community resources and therefore, I’m interested in exploring both the avenues that you mention: (1) Integration of comments (2) Integration of a forum …and I’m even keen on seeing if there’s a good way to: 1. Integrate another Rails application (I need to see the plugins that are there) and to 2. Use Radiant as a backend to provide content management in a role-based access way Long nights ahead… Cheers, Mohit. 2/10/2008 | 4:19 PM. ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/4 "2008-02-11T06:42:37Z")
Per-olof Hermansson [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > I would like my Radiant installation to have comments. > > I see that there is an extension for comments. It does work, but there are some caveats: - It uses Akismet for spam detection. If you don’t want to use Akismet, you have to write your own code. - Email addresses are required but it doesn’t do error handling cleanly. In fact, this second issue is a little tricky. I’ll post an email about it. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/5 "2008-02-11T06:43:47Z")
Mohit S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > My sites [http://onghu.com/te](http://onghu.com/te) and [http://openutk.org](http://openutk.org) are actually > engineering community resources and therefore, I’m interested in > exploring both the avenues that you mention: > (1) Integration of comments > (2) Integration of a forum > …and I’m even keen on seeing if there’s a good way to: > > 1. Integrate another Rails application (I need to see the plugins that > are there) and to > 2. Use Radiant as a backend to provide content management in a > role-based access way If you’re looking for a rails based forum, check out Beast: [http://beast.caboo.se/](http://beast.caboo.se/) – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/6 "2008-02-11T11:02:14Z")
> If you’re looking for a rails based forum, check out Beast I’ll second that recommendation. I’ve integrated Beast as an extension to a Radiant site without too much trouble. The Beast code is very clean. Unfortunately my “Beast extension” is not ready to be released for the greater good anytime soon, but I’d like to at some point. ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/7 "2008-02-11T11:09:54Z")
Casper F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > If you’re looking for a rails based forum, check out Beast > > I’ll second that recommendation. I’ve integrated Beast as an extension > to a Radiant site without too much trouble. The Beast code is very > clean. Unfortunately my “Beast extension” is not ready to be released > for the greater good anytime soon, but I’d like to at some point. That would be cool to see. I’ve been debating doing that versus fixing up the Comments extension for my needs. How tightly do you have them integrated? Does creating a new page in Radiant create a forum post? What about the two user models? I wouldn’t mind using it for comments on my sites, but I don’t want to force people to create an account. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/8 "2008-02-11T12:26:52Z")
> That would be cool to see. The site is at [http://www.nrgi-innovation.dk/forums](http://www.nrgi-innovation.dk/forums) - it is in Danish, but it’ll give you an idea. The other pages at that site are all served as pure Radiant pages. > > Does creating a new page in > > Radiant create a forum post? No. Beast forums, topics and posts are separate models completely unrelated to Radiant pages. I use it as a real forum, not for commenting pages. > What about the two user models? I’ve merged them. It wasn’t much more than adding extra fields to the existing Radiant users table. ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/9 "2008-02-11T15:53:38Z")
Casper F. wrote: > > If you’re looking for a rails based forum, check out Beast > > I’ll second that recommendation. I’ve integrated Beast as an extension > to a Radiant site without too much trouble. The Beast code is very > clean. Unfortunately my “Beast extension” is not ready to be released > for the greater good anytime soon, but I’d like to at some point. I wish… I request… I beg… Beast looks nice… If you feel it’s not ready for release, can you ‘release’ it privately? Or, a few pointers to get us started? The other recent option seems to be El Dorado. Not sure about it, either. Cheers, Mohit. 2/11/2008 | 10:53 PM. ---
**Author:** ![perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@perherman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/perherman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-comments/128421/10 "2008-02-11T16:13:12Z")
On Feb 11, 2008 6:43 AM, J Aaron F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > If you’re looking for a rails based forum, check out Beast: > > [http://beast.caboo.se/](http://beast.caboo.se/) The original Beast seems not to be maintained any more. Rick O. is taking a step in another direction with “Altered Beast”. More details at: [Parked at Loopia](http://beast.caboo.se/forums/1/topics/4650) There is Savage Beast 2 [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/savage-beast-2/) with the goal of being a pluginized Beast. Also, El Dorado [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/eldorado/) which started somewhat of a phpBB clone. I have no idea how hard/easy is to integrate any of these into Radiant.