vBulletin Rails integration

[webapps]

Does anyone have any experience with integrating vBulletin with a Rails app, and can comment on how easy it is , whether any plugins etc are available for this ?

I'd like to go with vBulletin, but unlike other popular forum engines theres very little out there on the net indicating that its possible without writing a lot of custom code.

Theres a post from aussiev8 , at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=253018 , which says

Any rails devs on here think its worth me pulling the source that connects the two systems and create a gem out of it?

At the moment it can:

- Authenticate users
- single login (session sharing)
- log out users (again session sharing)
- Maps most of the important tables in vbulletin (users, posts, threads, avatars, etc) with relationships mapped, e.g. User.first.avatar will return the correct avatar.

However I can't respond to that directly without buying a license first it seems.