I just published the source code of RailsWorks

RailsWorks is a simple Rails application which helps you log your daily work in a simple and friendly interface. We are developing this application for fun and to learn more about Rails. The source code is available and can be checked out through anonymous access, just follow this link for more details. Mind you, this is a beta preview and it works with Rails 1.2.3.

Here is the link for the live demo: RailsWorks demo

We are planning to continue the development and to finalize the following features:

• project management,
• team support
• resource management
• email notification
• more administrative support
• etc

For now, RailsWorks offers a minimum but also useful functionality: you can add projects and clients, log daily activities, edit and maintain project tasks and obtain few simple and useful reports.  Please use the RubyForge tracker in case you want to report bugs or if you would like to see any new features added.

Give it a whirl and let us know what you think.

Cheers,

 

These days I am trying to design an additional layer for using AJAX with JPublish. Now that DWR works beautifully with JPublish, I would like to add some Ajax UI support to JPublish to be used in the Views, something like the old AjaxTags, not via any taglibs definitely, but a streamlined AJAX support for our Velocity or Freemarker templates. This is where Rails excels again :(

I browsed again the web for finding some Ajax macros for Velocity or Freemarker (JPublish's favorite template managers) but nothing so far.

And then I found something very cool: JMaki. There is a demo showing JMaki and DWR working together and I am almost convinced, but I'll have to write some more integration tests and only after that I'll try to see how JMaki can be integrated with JPublish; I'll let you know how it goes.

If you're a Glassfish user, then find some time to spend and play with JMaki; JMaki is very nice.

I'll keep you tuned.
-florin