In my continuing efforts to work Ruby and Rails into the Enterprise, I’ve been working on adapting Rick Olson and Josh Goebel’s Beast discussion forums engine. Its excellent work on their part and quite fun to play with.
My adaptations are:
- Modify user authentication to use our LDAP user repository — so users can just use their existing credentials
- Using YUI Reset, Fonts, and Grids throughout
- Modifying the markup to be slightly more semantic
- Adding Digg-style pagination
- Applying design inspiration from Odeo, SimpleBits, and Cork’d as well as others.
I’m not done yet, but its starting to look pretty decent. Here’s a peek:
Hi:
I am wondering if you would make the YUI templates public. It would be so nice. I hope you will do that
Cheers
Hi,
I played around with ActiveDirectory integration as well. My experiences are chronicled at
http://justbarebones.blogspot.com/2007/08/activedirectory-ldap-integration-with.html
To support single sign-on, I had to use an IIS proxy frontend. I was wondering if you used a similar setup?
thx/Chetan