From: Eli Bendersky <eliben@...>
Date: 2006-05-07T00:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby community website / forum

> 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.

By borrowing from Perlmonks I didn't mean the content, but the code. 
Perlmonks is a customized Everything engine (a Perl CMS). It is quite 
possible, I am sure, to have a 'skeleton' version of Perlmonks with no 
content at all but all the features.

> 
> 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.

Just a forum is not enough, I think, because part of what makes 
Perlmonks great is exactly what you mentioned above - it has articles, 
tutorials and code snippets on it, all conveniently cross-linked with 
the 'discussions' (forum posts). Another is the user rating system, 
allowing to rate posts and replies, and thus ensuring trust between 
users and providing a real feeling of a community.

Just slapping a forum together is a 10-minutes job, using phpBB. It 
won't be enough, though.

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