# Workflow Controller for Ruby on Rails? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-controller-for-ruby-on-rails/138737 "2008-05-27T10:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rsoika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rsoika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsoika)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 10:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-controller-for-ruby-on-rails/138737/1 "2008-05-27T10:36:27Z")
Hi, I want to ask if anybody can help us implementing a Workflow Controller for Ruby on Rails? We are provider of a open source workflow engine based on JEE specification. The engine is licensed under GPL and is very easy to use. Similar to ruby on rails you have not to worry about the datamodel. You can store any kind of data in so called “workitems”. in a declarative way you can define a business process using a eclipse based workflow modeler. So you got an easy to use workflow component to implement a human based business process (workflow). (a short tutorial which explains this better you can found here: [http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/0000.0200.?open](http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/0000.0200.?open)) In addition to the datamodel concept of ruby on rails each dataset (workitem) is secured by individual read- and writeaccess which can be also modeled declarative by the workflowmodel. So every thing seems to by nice, but if you want to implement a web application you should do this also in JEE like Java Server Faces (JSF) or Faclets. And this is always a long hard way. I read about ruby on rails and I am fascinated about the concept how easy it is to build a web application. What I am looking for is a new controller (I think it is the controller?) which interact with the Imixs JEE Worklfow Service instead of a SQL based data model generated by ruby on rails. Is anybody interested to implement such a workflow controller for ruby on rails? I am a java/jee developer and I think it take to much time for me to implement this in ruby. But I would help as far as I can because I think this would be a interesting new component for building workfow applications with ruby on rails. All the functionality of the JEE Component is accessible during two webservices and we have implemented also a Ajax component which also uses this service. We have a description of the service here: [http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/3000.0015.0010.?OpenDocument](http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/3000.0015.0010.?OpenDocument) And also a documentation of our ajax client here: [http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/ajax](http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/ajax) which can be a better starting point as the JEE Project itself which is very technical focusing on JEE stuff. [http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/jee](http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/jee) Please let me know if anybody would like to help us. best regards Ralph ---
**Author:** ![rsoika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@rsoika](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rsoika)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-controller-for-ruby-on-rails/138737/2 "2008-05-27T21:01:52Z")
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:48 AM, rsoika [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > based workflow modeler. So you got an easy to use workflow component > ruby on rails and I am fascinated about the concept how easy it is to > applications with ruby on rails. > which can be a better starting point as the JEE Project itself which > is very technical focusing on JEE stuff. > [http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/jee](http://www.imixs.org/websites/imixs-org.nsf/chapter/jee) > > Please let me know if anybody would like to help us. acts\_as\_state\_machine? [http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts\_as\_state\_machine](http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_state_machine)