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).

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:58

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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.

answered Oct 19 '09 at 17:58

Tom Lehman

your link doesn't work. There is application error there – Seb Wilgosz Jun 28 '15 at 00:50
There is a problem to the given link. – Ganesh Kunwar Oct 02 '15 at 10:38
Try here: https://web.archive.org/web/20100819002445/http://www.pleaselistencarefully.com/2009/10/how-to-load-disqus-comments.html – stevec Aug 15 '19 at 15:59

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 03 '14 at 06:13

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You can always just sign up for an account for your site and stick their generic javascript into your page where you want it:

edited Jan 03 '14 at 06:13

answered Sep 29 '09 at 03:43

Shane Liebling

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '13 at 09:34

Since Feb 2010 The disqus javascript will load asynchronously.

Nothing will be waiting on Disqus to load, even if Disqus is slow to respond, and the web page will load quicker.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 29 '09 at 13:53

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I looked into this myself. There's a couple of Ruby gems, but Norman's disqus gem that you listed was the only one I could find with Rails helpers.

answered Sep 29 '09 at 13:53

Delameko

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