Welcome to El Dorado!
by Trevor Turk
I’m pleased to announce the first public release of El Dorado: a full-stack community web application written in Ruby/Rails. This is a stable beta version of the app, which is being released in anticipation of the 1.0 release scheduled for this spring.
The app features a forum, community event calendar, shared file storage, and a randomized header image gallery. The forum is somewhat modeled on PunBB (one of the more popular PHP forums) and can import from an existing site using PunBB.
The app has been used in production since late July ’07. The setup/administration process still leave something to be desired, but the end-user functionality is quite well tested.
You can get the download or more information on the El Dorado homepage, or check out the demo, testing, and support site here: eldorado.heroku.com. Also, consider subscribing to the almost effortless RSS feed to stay informed about upcoming releases and the occasional Ruby/Rails-related post.
Enjoy!
[...] we last spoke at the end of January, there’s been a goodly amount of activity with El Dorado. The highlight, of [...]
I've just installed el-dorado from git. How do I start using it? Is there a documentation for using el-dorado?
laurence, the README covers the installation process. If you have any questions along the way, please post at the support site here: http://eldorado.heroku.com/
Many thanks Trevor
The URL you directed me to is blocked by my college, because it had "Message Boards and Forums" as its tag.
I have installed eldorado. I would like to play with it, and I'm looking for a user documentation. Is there one written? Is it possible you could send one to me?
Many thanks,
Try visiting the home page of your site and then clicking the "help" link in the upper right of the toolbar that says your login information. That's about the best documentation I have, aside from the README. Good luck!
What are the future plans for El Dorado? Any plans to add a user friendly (WYSIWIG) interface or to make it easy to add pictures to blogs and forums? Sometimes, one needs to post pictures during discussions
Please direct questions to the demo and support forum: http://eldorado.heroku.com/
Do you have El Dorado in a zip format to download? my host has rube rail support and I would like to try this out.
Q
Click the "download" link on this page: http://github.com/trevorturk/eldorado/