El Dorado

Is this planned?

It's tentatively planned, but it's an if/when I have time kind of thing. Not a high priority. I'd happily take a patch, though. It would have to change the way categories work to use STI, so they could be used in the forum or the blog.

Ok. Where could I find out more about STI?

Are you an experienced Ruby/Rails developer? If not, this might be a little bit of a stretch.

Ruby, yes. Rails not yet, but I want to get more experience with RoR.

You'll have to dig around on Google more, but here's a quick link to give you the basic idea:

http://rookieonrails.blogspot.com/2008/01/singl...

You'd have to add two subclasses of Category, maybe ForumCategory and BlogCategory, and then add a type field to the categories table. Then, the categories would be saved in the same table, but they'd be of a different type.

If you wouldn't mind, it'd be best if you forked El Dorado on github and then let me know where it's at. That way, I could check out what you're up to and make sure it's as expected and help out.

My fork is at http://github.com/manfredu/el-dorado/tree/master. I have my development environment set up and also the first version running in production (http://www.d-frage.de/). It would be nice if I could start to work on i18n soon. This would probably be a good way to get familiar with the app before making further changes. I believe categories would also be useful for events and files. A description for files would also be nice.
I'm not sure if we really need different types of categories. Maybe the same categories could just be used everywhere. At least in my case this would make sense. Another option would be to have categories of type 'global', which could be used everyone, and specific ones for blogs, forums, events and files.