README
== Beast - Two's company. Three's a forum. More's a Beast.
A small, light-weight forum in Rails with a scary name and a goal of around 500 lines of code when we're done. [1]
[1] The 500 LOC limit has officially been put to rest (http://beast.caboo.se/forums/1/topics/681), however the goal is unchanged: clean, readable code, and a great minimal forum app. Less is more.
== How to Obtain Beast
Grab the latest:
svn checkout http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/beast/trunk beast
Customize your database.yml:
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
Load the schema:
rake db:schema:load
(You cannot use rake db:migrate to migrate the schema up from 0)
Change the PASSWORD_SALT in config/environment.rb.
Launch it:
script/server
== Optional Gems
get RedCloth for using Textile in Ruby
gem install RedCloth
get OpenID for OpenID logins:
gem install ruby-openid
get GetText for Translation support
== References
Backpack project page
http://technoweenie.backpackit.com/pub/706157
Installing on Windows Guide
http://www.olddognewtricks.co.uk/2006/09/beast...
#beastforum on freenode