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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

No, it's forbidden by the web gods

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm not sure, I'll try asking Gemini.

it suggested using next! Don't do it! Don't use ruby!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

You could but it's no longer in vogue. Try Elixir instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

Sure. Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails, for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I don't know. Can you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Sure. Discourse is quite popular forum software and it’s written in ruby.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Sure, but there are a gazillion forum websites already. I'd just use an existing one. The one D uses is the best I've ever used. I think it's actually written in D, which is a very niche language but way nicer than Ruby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Though for us to know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

there is only ultimate.cgi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think forums are the one type of website that's simply impossible to make with Ruby on Rails. In fact, I don't think any web framework can handle it...

I think your best bet in this instance is to code everything directly in binary. That's what I would do

Edit: apparently I actually needed to add /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Can I make a forum website with Ruby on Rails?

I'm sure that there's a Ruby-on-Rails-based forum package out there.

kagis

Yes.

https://github.com/thredded/thredded