integrating a discourse message board with an existing rails site

Question

I'm looking at integrating a message board for a site I'm developing in rails. The new discourse board looks interesting http://www.discourse.org/ but there isn't much information about integrating into another site either via oauth2 or sso or perhaps using a rails engine type system. Has anyone succesfully set this up with an app like this?

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Is there a roadmap for how this integration could take place in the future? Parts of it look really intriguing but would like some more info on how this use case could be handled.

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Since this question is getting a fair amout of traffic, I want to add this post http://meta.discourse.org/t/integrating-discourse-with-current-user-database/6669 which goes over the SSO attempts going on at discourse currently. I have also been in contact with the people at thougtbot about their implementation.

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I was interested in the same issue but here's what I found on Github issues:

The easiest way to get it running would be to install Discourse outside of your app. We do offer the full source code if you want to integrate with your existing login system, but I imagine it would be a fair amount of work at this point.

Right now we haven't focused much on production deployments since we're pre-beta and want to make sure people have a super easy upgrade system in place to stay on top of security holes.