documentation

bits and pieces of documentation.

quickstarts

• a quickstart with instructions on how to get ruote 2.1 and its dependencies
• it’s barley a task manager in a single file sinatra webapp (online demo)
• ruote and decision tables explains how to integrate ruote and decision tables, here is the result

• not really a quickstart but Torsten has pusblished an example of ruote in rails integration via ruote-kit, it’s called ruote on rails (there is a rails3 branch)

basic documentation

• the glossary enumerates concepts and terms used throughout ruote and attempts at giving explanations for them
• process definitions describe the flow of work among participants
• participants are handed workitems by the engine to perform tasks with them
• there are various participant implementations found in ruote itself and in its extensions, like ruote-couch and ruote-amqp
• expressions are the building blocks of process definitions

in-depth documentation

• the dollar notation is a short name for variable/field extrapolation techniques in process definitions
• common attributes can be used by any expression

advanced documentation

• ruote configuration
• ruote rdoc (raw ruby documentation)
• the control flow patterns page details how ruote implements/approximates the control flow part of the workflow patterns of Prof van der Aalst and Prof ter Hofstede and their research groups
• process administration or how to query, cancel or modify process instances
• process testing along with participant testing

presentations

• presentations about ruote

blog excerpts

a few links to blog posts about ruote.

• ruote 2.1 released with an explanation about storage and workers
• it’s barley a task manager in a single file sinatra webapp (online demo)
• how does ruote work ? (quite outdated but mostly OK)