# Workflow In RubyOnRails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-in-rubyonrails/69350>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 20, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-in-rubyonrails/69350 "2006-09-20T13:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![AJIT\_DIXIT](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@AJIT\_DIXIT](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJIT_DIXIT)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-in-rubyonrails/69350/1 "2006-09-20T13:30:31Z")

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When any enterprise development on ROR is evaluated , one of the  
important point of evaluation is support or availability of proper  
workflow engine meeting XPDL/WF-XML as per WFMC Standards

Please refer [http://www.wfmc.org/](http://www.wfmc.org/)

In java there are many open source workflow engines which you can  
integrate with your application bur Rails has none of equivalent  
standard

There is some work in this direction like  
[http://lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2006/01/21/acts-as-state-machine](http://lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2006/01/21/acts-as-state-machine)  
but it is far away from enterprise requirements and really is not build  
on WFMC Standards

Actually Rails is so well suited for such Workflow based enterprise  
development or following the workflow patterns  
([http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/](http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/)) due its MVC architecture

Some Workflow engines available in Java can be used like

[http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home](http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home)

Has ruby connector but core rails workflow engine will be always  
preferable or integration in rails will be preferable

I request that the workflow engine should be incorporated in core RAILS  
and could be something like Bonita of ObjectWeb  
([http://bonita.objectweb.org/](http://bonita.objectweb.org/))

Regards ,

AJIT DIXIT

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**Author:** ![AJIT\_DIXIT](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@AJIT\_DIXIT](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/AJIT_DIXIT)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/workflow-in-rubyonrails/69350/2 "2006-09-20T15:50:16Z")

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A0JIT,

what is a workflow? How do you implement it?

thanks  
jose

DIXIT wrote:

> When any enterprise development on ROR is evaluated , one of the  
> important point of evaluation is support or availability of proper  
> workflow engine meeting XPDL/WF-XML as per WFMC Standards
> 
> Please refer [http://www.wfmc.org/](http://www.wfmc.org/)
> 
> In java there are many open source workflow engines which you can  
> integrate with your application bur Rails has none of equivalent  
> standard
> 
> There is some work in this direction like  
> [http://lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2006/01/21/acts-as-state-machine](http://lunchroom.lunchboxsoftware.com/articles/2006/01/21/acts-as-state-machine)  
> but it is far away from enterprise requirements and really is not build  
> on WFMC Standards
> 
> Actually Rails is so well suited for such Workflow based enterprise  
> development or following the workflow patterns  
> ([http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/](http://is.tm.tue.nl/research/patterns/)) due its MVC architecture
> 
> Some Workflow engines available in Java can be used like
> 
> [http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home](http://web.openwfe.org/display/openwfe/Home)
> 
> Has ruby connector but core rails workflow engine will be always  
> preferable or integration in rails will be preferable
> 
> I request that the workflow engine should be incorporated in core RAILS  
> and could be something like Bonita of ObjectWeb  
> ([http://bonita.objectweb.org/](http://bonita.objectweb.org/))
> 
> Regards ,
> 
> AJIT DIXIT