Beast: An open source Rails forum in under 500 lines of code
Rick Olson and Josh Goebel have teamed up to produce Beast, a lightweight but well styled forum. Rails has sorely been lacking a good, well styled, open source forum, but Beast is great. Check out the demonstration forum or go get the code for yourself.





September 1st, 2006 at 1:15 pm
hi, i noticed that dates in the demonstration forum show up as "7 minutes ago ago by Bryan (view)", "1 day ago ago
by Josh Goebel (view)", "Aug 23, 2006 9:07AM ago
by Josh Goebel (view)".
too many "ago"s. =)
September 1st, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Under 500 lines!!!!!!1111one
Saw this article about a forum in Rails. It all looks very pretty and everything.
The thing that caught my eye is the text ‘under 500 lines of code’, I brought the domain onekay.com with the original intention of writing publicly availiabl...
September 1st, 2006 at 4:21 pm
looks great, but is there a tarball or zip for the source?
September 1st, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Rails apps don't have to look like they're made by 37signals. You have other choices.
September 1st, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Pete, they added a Grey border, oh no call the cops!
September 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Pete - it's open source so you're free to change the look & feel.
Guy #1:
"Hey - here's a $100 dollar bill."
Guy #2:
"Awww, man. Just think of the taxes I'll have to pay on that.
September 2nd, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Ruby and Ruby on Rails: tools of the utmost power and utility.
It was of today that I was a reader of this article about the Beast World Wide Web foruming software written in Ruby using Ruby on Rails. My readers, I know you are asking: what be so special about Beast? And I will be a teller to you: it is written ...