Software for forums

Hi,

I want to setup a forum. Ruby(RoR, Sinatra,…) would be my choice. Does
anyone knows a nice (not a 4 color ugly !grrr!) forum web app? I
really
don’t have the time to write my own and unhappily would choose PHP or
.ASP
or whatever. If you could give me a hint, that would be great. As an
alternative I can imagine an app which allows collaborative writing and
commenting, ACL would be nice too. ( lots of options or easy
extensible).

So a big thanks to anyone for hints. (and yes I search Google).

Cheers,

Chris

Christoph J. wrote:

Hi,

I want to setup a forum. Ruby(RoR, Sinatra,…) would be my choice. Does
anyone knows a nice (not a 4 color ugly !grrr!) forum web app? I really
don’t have the time to write my own and unhappily would choose PHP or .ASP
or whatever.

Do you plan on hacking on this? If not, why care what language it is
in? Drupal, for example, offers a boat-load of features and plugins.

Pick the tool that solves your problem.


James B.

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On Jun 26, 3:14 pm, Christoph J.
[email protected] wrote:

Hi,

I want to setup a forum. Ruby(RoR, Sinatra,…) would be my choice. Does
anyone knows a nice (not a 4 color ugly !grrr!) forum web app?

So far as I know, most good forum software allows control over the
appearance.

I’ve never really looked at what’s out there in terms of Ruby forum
apps, but a lot of people use Beast. Disqus might also be worth a
look.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]