# Forum Software

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/forum-software/9645>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [12 January 2004 01:51 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/forum-software/9645 "2004-01-12T01:51:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Dwayne\_Smurdon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@Dwayne\_Smurdon1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Dwayne_Smurdon1)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2004 01:51 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/forum-software/9645/1 "2004-01-12T01:51:36Z")

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I just launched a site for melanoma ([http://www.melanomaonline.com](http://www.melanomaonline.com)) and I  
was wondering if there is any discussions forum software written in Ruby.

I am running Snitz forums, but curious if there is something done in Ruby.

- Dwayne Smurdon

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_S2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@Andreas\_S2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Andreas_S2)\
**Post date:** [13 January 2004 12:56 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/forum-software/9645/2 "2004-01-13T12:56:39Z")

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Dwayne Smurdon wrote:

> I just launched a site for melanoma ([http://www.melanomaonline.com](http://www.melanomaonline.com)) and I  
> was wondering if there is any discussions forum software written in Ruby.

I am currently developing a new forum for [www.mikrocontroller.net](http://www.mikrocontroller.net). The  
planned features are: full NNTP access, optional (!) registration,  
subject- and sender-based scoring, optional threading (in later  
versions); there will be no avatar pictures, smilies, [phpbb] formatting  
Tags or anything else like this. It is using mysql with a nested set  
data structure and will work with CGI, Fastcgi and mod\_ruby.

I hope I will be able to release a beta or alpha version within a few  
weeks.