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= ruote
Ruote is a Ruby workflow engine. It's thus a workflow definition interpreter. If you're enterprisey, you might say business process definition.
Instances of these definitions are meant to run for a long time, so Ruote is oriented towards persistency / modifiability instead of transience / performance like a regular interpreter is. A Ruote engine may run multiple instances of workflow definitions.
Persistent mostly means that you can stop Ruote and later restart it without losing processes. Modifiability means that you can modify a workflow instance on the fly.
Process definitions are mainly describing how workitems are routed to participants. These participants may represent worklists for users or group of users, pieces of code, ...
== usage
require 'rubygems'
require 'ruote'
require 'ruote/storage/fs_storage'
# preparing the engine
engine = Ruote::Engine.new(
Ruote::Worker.new(
Ruote::FsStorage.new('ruote_work')))
# registering participants
engine.register_participant :alpha do |workitem|
workitem.fields['message'] = { 'text' => 'hello !', 'author' => 'Alice' }
end
engine.register_participant :bravo do |workitem|
puts "I received a message from #{workitem.fields['message']['author']}"
end
# defining a process
pdef = Ruote.process_definition :name => 'test' do
sequence do
participant :alpha
participant :bravo
end
end
# launching, creating a process instance
wfid = engine.launch(pdef)
engine.wait_for(wfid)
# blocks current thread until our process instance terminates
# => 'I received a message from Alice'
== test suite
see http://github.com/jmettraux/ruote/tree/ruote2.1/test
== license
MIT
== Links
http://ruote.rubyforge.org
http://github.com/jmettraux/ruote
http://jmettraux.wordpress.com (blog)
== feedback
mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users
irc : irc.freenode.net #ruote
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