/altered_beast

My fork of Altered Beast, some updates, bugfixes and preferences.

Primary LanguageRuby

Altered Beast

The popular rails-based Beast forum, rewritten from the ground up with the same database and views.

  • updated for Rails 2.2.2

  • using rspec/model_stubbing

  • added a state machine for user logins

  • built-in multi-site support

  • spam protection from akismet/viking

  • forum authorization rules (public/private/invitation)

  • email and atom feed support

  • xml/json API (not 100% tested yet, fixing soon)

  • highline based easy console installer

Help desired via git:

git clone git://github.com/jxl/altered_beast.git

INSTALLATION

# download altered_beast
# gem install rails 2.2.2
$ mkdir log
$ rake tmp:create
$ rake app:bootstrap

Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.