Based on the very popular Rails message forum, Beast, this is a Rails forum that implements multiple topics, posts, moderators, RSS feeds, localization, and most all the niceties you've gotten to know on the Beast forums (beast.caboo.se).

The goal of the Savage Beast plugin is to get the featureful forums of Beast, without the hassle of maintaining separate Mongrels, subdomains, and User sharing that make Beast tricky to setup.

Our ultimate goal is to make this plugin as simple to install as any other Rails plugin, but in the more immediate goal we're aiming for is to create a version of Beast that integrates transparently with your existing site, and that can be setup in a few minutes.

NOTE that this version of Savage Beast was written from scratch, based off of the Beast trunk code as of January 2008. It is designed to be Rails 2.0.x compliant. It only circumstantially shares code with the original Savage Beast plugin (written by Jodi Showers and Nick Coyne), though their demo app was used extensively as a theoretical tool to grasp how this idea could work.

Installation instructions available at http://www.williambharding.com/blog/?p=100