~~~~> ALTERED BEAST <~~~~

The popular rails-based Beast forum…Rewrote to your standards…

• Rails 2.0.2 and 2.1.0 Support (If You Have 2.0.2 Delete boot.rb and environment.rb and Rename environment_2.0.2.rb and boot_2.0.2.rb ==> environment.rb and boot.rb!)

• 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

• highline based easy console installer

• Multiple Domains Per Server

• Easy Setup

Help desired via git:

git clone git://git.caboo.se/altered_beast.git

~~~~> INSTALLATION <~~~~

# download altered_beast

# install rubygems

# install rails 2.1.0 or 2.0.2
$ cd /path/to/where/you/put/altered_beast

$ mkdir log

$ rake tmp:create
$ rake db:schema:load

First created user will be admin.

~~~~> KNOWN ISSUES <~~~~

• User Can Not Log In Without going to the Login Page, For some reason Sessions is Broke :/

~~~~> TODO LIST <~~~~

• Add Support for Deleting All Settings and Reset all content and Settings

• Add Way for People to easily Change the “beast_sidebar_title” and “beast_sidebar_body”

• Add Way to Delete Things More Easily (?)