== Beast - Two's company. Three's a forum. More's a Beast. A small, light-weight forum in Rails with a scary name and a goal of around 500 lines of code when we're done. [1] [1] The 500 LOC limit has officially been put to rest (http://beast.caboo.se/forums/1/topics/681), however the goal is unchanged: clean, readable code, and a great minimal forum app. Less is more. == How to Obtain Beast Grab the latest: svn checkout http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/beast/trunk beast Customize your database.yml: cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml Load the schema: rake db:schema:load (You cannot use rake db:migrate to migrate the schema up from 0) Change the PASSWORD_SALT in config/environment.rb. Launch it: script/server == Optional Gems get RedCloth for using Textile in Ruby gem install RedCloth get OpenID for OpenID logins: gem install ruby-openid get GetText for Translation support == References Backpack project page http://technoweenie.backpackit.com/pub/706157 Installing on Windows Guide http://www.olddognewtricks.co.uk/2006/09/beast... #beastforum on freenode