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Forums & Discussion
Categories, boards, topics, posts, replies, quotes, tags, bookmarks, follows, search, attachments, formatting, revisions, and link previews.
RAILS-NATIVE COMMUNITY SOFTWARE
Your community belongs in Rails.
RailsDen is a complete community platform for Ruby on Rails. Run it as its own application, or mount it directly inside the Rails application you already have.
$
gem install rails_den
$
rails_den new my_community
Creating Rails application...
Installing RailsDen...
✓ RailsDen is ready
One gem. Standalone or embedded.
TWO DEPLOYMENT MODELS
Build a community app. Or add a community to your app.
Standalone RailsDen creates a complete Rails application for your community.
Embedded RailsDen mounts inside an existing Rails application and integrates with the users and authentication you already own.
Either way, the result is still a Rails application you can understand, extend, deploy, and operate with ordinary Rails tools.
WHAT RAILSDEN INCLUDES
More than a forum.
RailsDen brings durable discussion, real-time conversation, member identity, moderation, permissions, and engagement into one Rails-native platform.
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Real-time Chat
Give members a place for immediate conversation alongside the organized, durable discussions in the forum.
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Members & Messaging
Profiles, avatars, mentions, follows, notifications, reactions, private conversations, and community identity.
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Moderation & Permissions
Roles, board access, reports, warnings, restrictions, moderation history, and administrative controls.
MOVING FROM DISCOURSE?
Bring the community with you.
RailsDen can import an official Discourse backup into a fresh RailsDen installation.
Supported migration includes users, categories, boards, topics, posts, staff roles, uploads, and avatars.
See the Discourse migration →
WANT IT HOSTED?