# Suggestion for a good rails forum

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 5, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015 "2008-08-05T07:29:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/1 "2008-08-05T07:29:23Z")

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i’m looking for a good rails forum that will run under rails 2.0.2.

i tried using altered beast but for some reason when i create the first  
user and click the confirmation email it never gets registered. there  
is no errors in any of the rails logs or apache logs. anyone know why  
this might not be working or have another solution for me to try?

thanks.

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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/2 "2008-08-05T07:52:49Z")

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Scott K.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> i’m looking for a good rails forum that will run under rails 2.0.2.
> 
> i tried using altered beast but for some reason when i create the first  
> user and click the confirmation email it never gets registered. there  
> is no errors in any of the rails logs or apache logs. anyone know why  
> this might not be working or have another solution for me to try?

I think the default is that mail only actually gets sent in  
production. Is your app running in development mode perhaps?

Otherwise make sure your config/environments/production.rb has a valid  
smtp setup.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/3 "2008-08-05T08:01:00Z")

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You could give eldorado a shot.

I also have a forum system called rboard that you could try:

> **[GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](https://github.com/Radar/rboard/tree/master)**
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> master

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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/4 "2008-08-05T09:36:57Z")

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> Otherwise make sure your config/environments/production.rb has a valid  
> smtp setup.
> 
> –  
> Greg D.  
> [http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

yea i am running in dev mode but without working mail on my dev server.  
i went into /var/spool/mqueue and read the email but the link still was  
just redirecting me to the login page for some reason without creating  
the user.

thanks i’ll check out eldorado. anyone else have any good results with  
another forum?

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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/5 "2008-08-05T10:48:58Z")

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Ryan B. wrote:

> You could give eldorado a shot.
> 
> I also have a forum system called rboard that you could try:  
> [GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](http://github.com/Radar/rboard/tree/master)

ryan, i tried rboard but when i did the migrate i got couldn’t find  
table rboard\_development.themes. i looked around but couldn’t figure  
out how to fix it offhand.

i did get eldorado working though and it looks very nice. do you know  
if there are any themes available yet to download?

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**Author:** ![skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@skirkpatrick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/skirkpatrick)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 7:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggestion-for-a-good-rails-forum/145015/6 "2008-08-11T07:45:21Z")

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Scott K. wrote:

> i did get eldorado working though and it looks very nice. do you know  
> if there are any themes available yet to download?

Scott, I’m the developer of El Dorado. There aren’t any themes available  
that I know of, and theme support is currently limited to CSS. I hope  
you find the app useful, though. If you’re looking for help with  
anything else, you can check out the demo, testing, and support  
installation here:  
[http://eldoradoapp.com](http://eldoradoapp.com)

For anyone else who is interested, you can read more here:  
[http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado/](http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado/)

Thanks,

- Trevor