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Web Forum built in go (#golang)

forum.go

Basic Web Forum built with go (#golang)

Installation

Prerequisites:

brew install mercurial
brew install rethinkdb

Dependencies

go get -u github.com/hoisie/web
go get -u github.com/christopherhesse/rethinkgo

Running

First start your rethinkdb by simply typing `rethinkdb` at a command prompt.

Navigate to http://localhost:8080 in your browser and create a new database called `community`

In order to run this application you'll need to update the conf file to point to your database,
by default the configuration file is set to rethinkdb defaults.  If you change the defaults you 
will need to update the conf file.

Model Structure

  • User
  • has_many Topics
  • Forum
  • has_many Topics
  • Topic
  • belongs_to User
  • belongs_to Forum
  • has_many Posts
  • Post
  • belongs_to User
  • belongs_to Topic