http://rock808.com more than you wanted to know.... Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://rock808.com/2007/03/21/beast-light-weight-rails-forum/ http://rock808.com/2007/03/21/beast-light-weight-rails-forum/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:01:56 +0000 David http://rock808.com/2007/03/21/beast-light-weight-rails-forum/ Beast is suppose to be a light-weight (500 lines of code) web forum written in Rails and using gravatar.com icons.  The Beast software itself looks pretty solid.  There is an RSS feed link on (to?) every page, and I kind of like that…. option anyway.  I’m not sure if the best reason to install any software is because they are trying to keep their code under 500 lines… especially in this day and age!   But, for certain needs, and to keep things simple.. this might be just what you’re looking for.  The use of gravatar icons is another extremely interesting feature, but that’s for another post.  Perhaps I’ll look in to installing this somewhere this next week and we’ll see how it goes.  I STILL have not really done anything with PHPBB, which seems like it might have more bells and whistles… but again… much more of a BEAST to work with.  ;)

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