My Professional Blog

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: