Baz-ab is a project mainly written in RUBY and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
Altered Beasts, basil's editition
== Altered Beast
The popular rails-based Beast forum, rewritten from the ground up with the same database and views.
Check out the code via git:
git clone git://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast.git
=== INSTALLATION
# download altered_beast
# gem install rails 2.3.3
$ mkdir log
$ rake tmp:create
$ rake app:bootstrap
Follow the instructions to create your database and load users.
Start the application with script/server and visit http://localhost:3000 to
visit your new forum.