Kevin, Forums and blogs aren't the sexiest things to write, and so there's very few plugins out there. Especially since they're view heavy, an engine would be better, so hopefully we'll see some good ones come about in Rails 3. It's "relatively" easy to write (just time consuming), so I think most people are rolling their own for good app integration.
I have used the older version of Beast Forum that ran under Rails 1.x. It was pretty mediocure (I haven't tried Savage Beast for Rails 2.x), but heres how we setup the original Beast with Single Signon. It doesn't have the best integration, but we've actually moved from Beast to a PHP forum called Vanilla (http://vanillaforums.org/) on Obsidian Portal's forums (http://forums.obsidianportal.com/. It has several great plugins like single sign on, email notification, etc. Here's some information on how to integrate it with Rails: http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/vanilla-on-rails-php-and-ruby-on-rails-coexisting . For a blog, I'd run of the video on on the rubyonrails.org website. Hope that helps! Ryan On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Scott Olmsted <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking at Savage Beast > (http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/1075-savage-beast) > for a forum plugin. Any experience with it, anyone? > > Scott > > > At 12:59 PM 2/18/2010, you wrote: > > I am looking for a good Rails blog plugin/engine to integrate with an > existing site. Any ideas? > > I could use the same for Forum plugin? > > > ---- > Kevin Baker > Sr Software Engineer > Sorenson Media > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
