From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T00:14:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby community website / forum

On 5/6/06, Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For starters, the software that powers Perlmonks itself can be used.
> [snip]
>  I guess it can be OK to get the website
> running, and later embarassed Ruby hackers can rewrite it in Ruby :-)
>

Well, places like perlmonks have a lot of content there besides just
archives of messages posted. There's tutorials, code snippets, etc.
And they're often cross-linked (nodes pointing to other nodes). It
would probably be *much* less work to start with something fairly
simple, in Ruby (RoR-based I'm guessing), then improve it over time,
rather than go with the perlmonks code and migrate all the accreted
content over to something Ruby-based.

I took a peek at RubyForge, searching for "cms", but there's a lot of
"coming soon!" projects in those results. Searching for "forum" gives
similar results.

Considering that the site would be based on a forum, but probably
heavily modified, it's probably going to require something custom.