What is a good Ruby on Rails forum that can easily integrated to an existing application?

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What is a good, open source RoR 3 forum that can easily integrated to an existing application?

Optional features:

OpenID support
Haml/SCSS templates
Support for smilies, YouTube, images, etc
I'm probably going to change it alot, and I'm still pretty weak in Ruby, so clean, commented code with good practices would be great.

Thanks :)

Emotionality answered 4/10, 2010 at 17:7 Comment(0)

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The Rails community has never been focused on developing Ruby/Rails forums, conversely to other languages such as PHP. The evidence of that is a really old news talking about one of the forums prototype ever produces in Rails.

You can still found traces of Beast somewhere, but the real answer is that there's no interesting open source Rails forum available from the time being.

Lambdacism answered 4/10, 2010 at 17:13 Comment(2)

You have several alternatives: 1. install a forum developed with a different language and use API to talk with it from your Rails app 2. develop your own solution 3. use a third party service – Lambdacism 4/10, 2010 at 17:25

I think I will develop my own solution. Thanks! – Emotionality 4/10, 2010 at 17:27

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Recently I was searching for similar functionality and came across discourse. You should definitely check it out.

Discourse is the 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built 
for the next decade of the Internet.

Whenever you need ...

a mailing list
a forum to discuss something
a chat room where you can type paragraphs

... consider Discourse.

Its developed by Jeff Atwood and team

Bellbird answered 4/5, 2013 at 11:59 Comment(2)

The best part is, it's being actively developed (& maintained) and you can actually contribute to it if you find that it's lacking something! – Ale 3/12, 2013 at 6:28

Except that it's being designed to be a stand alone, when what we really want is an engine we can make use of in our own sites. – Catchy 20/12, 2013 at 2:15

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Have a look on http://github.com/radar/rboard the most powerful and poplar in Rails world at the moment

Arabeila answered 7/1, 2011 at 0:51 Comment(1)

It is now superseded by forem, also from radar. – Reade 30/9, 2012 at 21:48

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The Rails community has never been focused on developing Ruby/Rails forums, conversely to other languages such as PHP. The evidence of that is a really old news talking about one of the forums prototype ever produces in Rails.

You can still found traces of Beast somewhere, but the real answer is that there's no interesting open source Rails forum available from the time being.

Lambdacism answered 4/10, 2010 at 17:13 Comment(2)

You have several alternatives: 1. install a forum developed with a different language and use API to talk with it from your Rails app 2. develop your own solution 3. use a third party service – Lambdacism 4/10, 2010 at 17:25

I think I will develop my own solution. Thanks! – Emotionality 4/10, 2010 at 17:27

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Thredded does all of this and more.

Because Thredded is a Rails engine, it is very easy to integrate it into an existing app.

Cossack answered 6/11, 2016 at 3:8 Comment(0)

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have you looked at Forulio ? Seems like you can build on it . Looks decent to start with.

Moltke answered 4/10, 2010 at 17:48 Comment(0)

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