[awang]

Thanks for the quick reply!

> I'm not sure what you mean by instance - do you mean server? You could write a php scirpt to do what you want then call it from a RoR program on another server. The issue I see with that would be security (obviously you don't want anyone else running that script).

Yes I mean server. Maybe we can obfuscate the script name and only call it from our servers. How easy it would be to sniff packets coming out of our servers to find the call to the vBulletin server? Want to make sure this is still a viable option without turning it into a security discussion =)

> Connecting to the database is an option, the only issue is that you won't be able to take advantage of the vb functions. But it's a reasonable approach that I've seen other people here use.

Great! A quick search shows that I may have to chat with our vBulletin host to see if they can enable us to access the db remotely. Do you have any experience, or can you point us in the right direction?