# The Forum Hunt continues **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169 "2008-10-30T19:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/1 "2008-10-30T19:22:04Z")
I’m still looking around for a good forum to integrate with a Radiant site that I’m working on, and I have narrowed it down to three options in the Rails world: (a) RForum - that seems to be updated less frequently, but seems quite good! (b) Altered Beast - quoted as an exemplary Rails 2 application (c) El Dorado - Seems quite nice and has nice extra features As such, my main requirements are quite simple: (a) Multiple forums, discussions and messages (b) Good spam controls and support for moderating messages, users, etc. (c) User control and registration (d) Some integration with e-mail (like watching threads) - optional. (e) Support for multi-lingual messages (UI doesn’t need to be) (f) Some support for Integration: modify style sheets, simple recent messages page, a simple user model, etc. Looking around in the non-Rails world, I find that PhpBB is popular but has a bad name when it comes to security and some people say that it is quite hard to integrate with/ change. Another one I stumbled across is called Vanilla and it seems to have a good reputation for a clean UI and ease of integration and support for add-ons. URL: [http://getvanilla.com/](http://getvanilla.com/) Does anyone have any suggestions/ experience to share? It is acceptable for the BBS to run on a separate sub-domain from the Radiant site. There is no need for there to be very tight integration between the two. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Mohit. 10/31/2008 | 2:19 AM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/2 "2008-10-30T21:08:12Z")
There is ‘altered beast’ which is based of the no longer maintained ‘best’ forum app. But if you want a truly slow and insecure server, then please use phpBB. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/3 "2008-10-30T21:49:37Z")
Fernando P. wrote: > There is ‘altered beast’ which is based of the no longer maintained > ‘best’ forum app. > > But if you want a truly slow and insecure server, then please use phpBB. Hi Fernando, thanks for the reply. So, it does seem that the general feedback is to avoid phpBB. In Rails, all options are still open to me… my curiosity is currently piqued by Vanilla which is something that looks very interesting. Cheers, Mohit. 10/31/2008 | 4:48 AM. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/4 "2008-10-30T21:51:26Z")
I know a few phpBB forums that have been hacked, moreover it is badly coded (slow buggy, etc) and the ‘extensions’ are even more badly coded. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/5 "2008-12-03T10:00:41Z")
Fernando P. wrote: > There is ‘altered beast’ which is based of the no longer maintained > ‘best’ forum app. speaking of which… so is there an alternative to beast or “altered beast” right now? I tried altered just recently - but didnt go away with such a good impression. ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/6 "2008-12-03T13:43:57Z")
There is my project called rboard [GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](http://github.com/radar/rboard) compatible with latest rails and supports internationalisation On 03/12/2008, at 19:30, Jeffrey Lim \ **Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/7 "2008-12-03T13:53:56Z") hi radar how to use tags using acts\_as\_taggable\_on\_steroids? can u give any sample application if u know ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/8 "2008-12-03T14:51:26Z")
Ryan B. wrote: > There is my project called rboard [GitHub - radar/rboard: A fully featured forum system compatible with Rails 2.3](http://github.com/radar/rboard) > compatible with latest rails and supports internationalisation cool! I realize there’s a TODO.html in there. How updated is it? do u have any plans for implementing a captcha for registration? ---
**Author:** ![mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mohits](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mohits)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-forum-hunt-continues/152169/9 "2008-12-04T06:29:21Z")
The TODO.html is not updated all that regularly since I’m the only one working on the project, you’ll find a lot of the features in the first 2 sections are done already. ## I was considering implementing a captcha system for registrations at a later date. Ryan B. Freelancer > **[frozenplague.net](http://frozenplague.net)** > > This domain may be for sale!