So Forum doesn't support email based responses. Are there other solutions besides Google Groups?
I like the idea of starting a Rails Engines specific Google Group. Input welcome. On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:41:42 PM UTC-4, Ryan Bigg wrote: > > No, Forem doesn't have email based forum replies. You would need to set up > some kind of SMTP receiver for that (or use a service like SendGrid which > supports it) > > On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 6:28 PM, Weston Platter wrote: > > @Rodrigo et all - any further thoughts on actionable items? > > @RyanBigg - does Forum have email based forum replies? > > -weston > > > On Monday, July 23, 2012 10:48:09 AM UTC-4, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas wrote: > > A forum is not as effective as mailing lists for people like me. > > Usually you will only access a forum for asking questions and not to reply > to them. This also makes it less likely that your question will be answered. > > In a mailing list you'll see all messages that comes through them. > Eventually you'll see a question that you're able to reply even though your > main interest in the list is making questions instead of answering them. > > I have searched for "engine" in the Rails-talk list and I found that that > list is probably not very effective for such subject: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/PqCTofRUSrM/ZXmbOmB_368J( > app-prefix for tasks defined in an engine?! - no answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/XvrZOOcsmD8/6sAQjLWB1QcJ(self > replied) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/OkE9zq5APVQ/6IgaWmZIirUJ(same) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/iMDlv-U5Kyc/r1uvnconwlIJ(no > answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/b_gStTqQXvA/vQNSqsF2muIJ(no > answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/1IofgiCKbUQ/69eaQeOGvG8J(no > answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/5T0g8ADL_4w/4BgZItDw260J(no > answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/K6cgyimLb5Y/2YlNZPsPFM4J(no > answers) > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/rubyonrails-talk/engine/rubyonrails-talk/JpLBcLhu2PA/p4-xpg6iC2cJ(no > answers) > > This is pretty typical in Rails-talk and I'd say this would represent > about 80% of the top results for "engine" search in that group. > > And there is a lot of regular questions like database modeling, > validations, etc there too. > > I still think that a focused mailing list on Engines or more advanced > stuff could be interesting for dealing with experienced Rails developers. > > You will also find by looking at that group that the people that are most > likely to be the ones that know best the answers are not subscribed to > rails-talk but to rails-core only. > > Lots of them don't even seem to be subscribed to rails-core even and I'd > suspect the core members have a separate mailing list or other means of > communicating between themselves. > > That is why I think a focused general questions list about advanced > subjects could be interesting. > > I hope you understand what I mean. > > Cheers, > Rodrigo. > > Em 22-07-2012 20:32, Ryan Bigg escreveu: > > All this talk of categorization sounds almost like there should be some > kind of Rails forum for discussing things in, rather than isolated mailing > lists. > > There's an engine for that. https://github.com/radar/forem > > On Sunday, 22 July 2012 at 5:36 AM, Luís Ferreira wrote: > > Yes, but engines kinda sucked before 3.1. Now a lot more people are > using them. > > +1 for the list. > On Jul 21, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Andrew Kaspick wrote: > > Here's a past one... > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > dead! > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Bigg <[email protected]> wrote: > > rails-talk is a ghetto. > > A new engines list would be best. > > On Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Kaspick wrote: > > Engine lists have been created in the past, but they're not very active > or are dead. > > -1 to a new engine list and +1 to just asking the questions in rails-talk > first > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 7:41 PM, TuteC <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > Agree that a Rails engine is in the frontier between custom app code > and Rails architecture, yet a client (and not core) of Rails. > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is not always clear whether we should use Rails-talk or Rails-core > list. > > > > In the same way we have a list for Rails documentation and we had one for > > i18n, would you consider a new list oriented to Engine/Plugins > developers? > > > > This would be a list we could subscribe for engine-related questions that > > would't have a very big traffic like the Rails-talk one and I think such > a > > list could be pretty useful for gem authors. > > > > Would that be wanted? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/OfqBIkXpQRgJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. 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