Altered Beast¶ ↑

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

• updated for Rails 2.1.1

• 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/courtenay/altered_beast.git

INSTALLATION¶ ↑

# download altered_beast
# gem install rails 2.1.1
$ mkdir log
$ rake tmp:create
$ rake app:bootstrap

Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.