Forem
The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever. (by rubysherpas)
Mailboxer
A Rails gem to send messages inside a web application (by mailboxer)
| Forem | Mailboxer | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | |
| 1,554 | 1,641 | |
| -0.1% | 0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 7 years ago | 20 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Forem
Posts with mentions or reviews of Forem.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Forem yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Mailboxer
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mailboxer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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8 Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails
A final anti-pattern I've noticed with new developers is a tendency to use gems instead of creating their own classes and database tables. I encountered an example of this recently where a junior developer was building a messaging feature between users. Their first instinct was to look for gems to implement this feature and they found the mailboxer gem. Mailboxer is a fairly complex gem which will build a full mailbox system (4 database tables with 10+ fields each) with features such as inbox, outbox, read receipts, etc.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Forem and Mailboxer you can also consider the following projects:
Discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Thredded - The best Rails forums engine ever.
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
diaspora* - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Denshobato - Private messaging between models
Social Shares - Check how many times url was shared in social networks, e.g. share counts
Social Share Button - Helper for add social share feature in your Rails app. Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, Douban ...