Best way to add Disqus comments to a Rails application?

Question

Is there anything better than the Disqus Ruby Gem? Perhaps something geared specifically towards Rails?

(The Disqus gem might be the best option, I just haven't been able to find much color one way or the other).

Answer 1

The Ruby gem's helper just embeds Disqus' native Javascript, which is bad because it loads the Disqus comments synchronously.

Rather than make users wait, I did some hacking and got the comments to load asynchronously. Check out my blog post on the subject.