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Continuing my long stent of Ruby on Rails builds is yet another build which focuses more on relationships in a real-world discussion forum application.

The application on the outside looks a little bleak but I promise there is a lot going on under the hood of which you could extend to be something very feature rich.

The Goals of the application

To create a discussion forum with appropriate channels. Every discussion will belong to a channel and an author. The author can manage their own discussion by editing or deleting it at any time once logged in. If a user has admin privileges they can manage any user's discussions and replies. Any discussion can have many replies which is what makes forums so great for a community based application.

Some key features of this application include:

• Markdown support and syntax highlighting for code snippets
• Validations
• Admin user roles
• Prettier URLS
• Ajax replies ( load automatically on submit rather than a full page refresh )

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