Disqus Ruby Gem

The Disqus Gem helps you easily integrate the Disqus commenting system into your website. It works for any site programmed in Ruby, and has view helpers for Rails and Merb.

Get it

Stable release:

gem install disqus

Bleeding edge:

gem install norman-disqus --source http://gems.github.com

Use it:

Configure it:


  Disqus::defaults[:account] = "my_account"

Show the comment threads on a post page:


  # Loads the commenting system
  disqus_thread
  
  # Or if you're not using Rails/Merb:
  Disqus::Widget::thread
  
  # Sets the inner html to the comment count for any links on the page that
  # have the anchor "disqus_thread". For example, "View Comments" below would
  # be replaced by "1 comment" or "23 comments" etc.
  # <a href="http://my.website/article-permalink#disqus_thread">View Comments</a>
  # <a href="http://my.website/different-permalink#disqus_thread">View Comments</a>
  disqus_comment_counts
  
  # Or if you're not using Rails/Merb:
  Disqus::Widget::comment_counts

Show the combo widget on a post page:


  disqus_combo(:color => "blue", :hide_mods => false, :num_items => 25)
  
  # Or for non-Rails/Merb:
  Disqus::Widget::combo(:color => "blue", :hide_mods => false, :num_items => 25)

Show the comment count on a permalink:


  link_to("Permalink", post_path(@post, :anchor => "disqus_thread"))
  ...
  disqus_comment_counts
  
  # Or for non-Rails/Merb:
  Disqus::Widget::comment_counts

Hack it:

Github repository: http://github.com/norman/disqus

Complain about it:

[email protected]

Learn more about Disqus:

http://disqus.com

Thanks to the following contributors:

Quin Hoxie – Merb support