Re: [Radiant] Simple Machines Forum + Radiant

[Joel Oliveira]

If Beast is something you'd want to explore, then I'd recommend  
Altered Beast which, I think, is a fork that's actually active in its  
development.


On Jun 28, 2009, at 4:13 PM, John W. Long m...@johnwlong.com wrote:


Mohit,

Have you thought about integrating Beast with Radiant? I think there  
was some work done on this in the past. Not sure if it ever came to  
fruition. Just wondering why you want to use SMF.


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On Jun 28, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote:


Hi Guys

After a relatively futile search for a BBS/ Forum written in Rails  
which I could use, I seem to have finally settled on Simple  
Machines Forum (SMF) for a site I'm building.  I'm coupling the  
forum with Radiant so that the static content is served out of  
Radiant with the ability to add comments to the content, but most  
of the interaction-heavy parts are handled by the Forum.  It  
naturally provides conversations/ discussions and also has support  
for multiple boards and even polls.


I also saw an extension that makes it easier for people to write  
full-length articles using that as the base - and plan to use it as  
the equivalent of an opinionated wiki, i.e., the content is lead  
by one person and the others discuss it (I know this point is  
contentious and there may be a lot of debate about it).


All the same, I was wondering if anyone has any experience in  
making the two work together?  I think I may not want too much from  
it - but share some data about users, recent posts, etc.  I think  
it would be too much work to share layouts but a few days of CSS  
work with it has resulted in very similar looking pages.   I can  
live with that.


Any ideas anyone?  (Just for completeness, SMF is written in PHP.)

Cheers,
Mohit.
6/29/2009 | 3:55 AM.

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Re: [Radiant] Simple Machines Forum + Radiant

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Joel Oliveira wrote:
If Beast is something you'd want to explore, then I'd recommend 
Altered Beast which, I think, is a fork that's actually active in its 
development.


On Jun 28, 2009, at 4:13 PM, John W. Long m...@johnwlong.com wrote:


Mohit,

Have you thought about integrating Beast with Radiant? I think there 
was some work done on this in the past. Not sure if it ever came to 
fruition. Just wondering why you want to use SMF.

Hi John  Joel

Thanks for your answers.  Actually, a while back, a colleague helped me 
review the four main options for forums in Rails:

* Beast/ Altered Beast
* El Dorado - focused more on being a holistic site, rather than a forum.
* RForum - fantastic, but still on Rails 1.1.6 with little or no active 
development

and 1 more.

The general thing we ended up with was that the Rails based forums were 
lacking:

1. Good spam control
2. Active development
3. Support for easy customization of themes, etc.
4. An active community developing things like add-ons or plugins to add 
other features

5. Things like getting an email when a board you're watching is updated

I'm making a few sweeping statements here (sorry) but that was roughly 
what we found.  In contrast, I got the feeling that SMF is quite mature 
with most of these features already in place.  I think it's roughly 
based on vBulletin - so, it has a lot of features and more importantly, 
has the features I think I need.


My personal preference would be RForum - I think it's fast, smooth, 
fantastic and quite feature-rich.  But, seeing as it's not actively 
developed any more and is still on Rails 1.1.6 (I think), I decided to 
veer towards SMF.  Even Altered Beast has not been updated since Oct 
2008 (not that far back, admittedly).  I would really like to see a 
separate project called Radiant BBS built with the same ease, 
extensibility and cool class as Radiant CMS.


But in the meanwhile, back to the original question - I was wondering if 
anyone has any experience in making the two work together?  I think I 
may not want too much from it - but share some data about users, recent 
posts, etc.  I think it would be too much work to share layouts but a 
few days of CSS work with it has resulted in very similar looking 
pages.   I can live with that.


Any ideas anyone?  (Just for completeness, SMF is written in PHP.)

Cheers
Mohit.


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