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Rails 3 port of ground-up rewrite of Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum.

== Altered Beast

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

  • updated for Rails 3
  • compatible with Ruby 1.9.3
  • full i18n (with German, English and Portuguese (Brazil) support)
  • 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
  • internationalization via the I18n framework

Check out the code via git:

git clone git://github.com/stiff/altered_beast.git

=== INSTALLATION

$ git clone git://github.com/stiff/altered_beast.git
$ cd altered_beast
$ bundle install
$ rake app:bootstrap

Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.
Start the application with script/server and visit http://localhost:3000 to 
visit your new forum.

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