documentation
bits and pieces of documentation.
presentations
- Kenneth Kalmer presented Ruote in 20 minutes at Ruby on Beer in Johannesburg
- Two presentations of Ruote, one from October 2008 and one from June 2008
quickstarts
- simple.rb is a small example, one process definition, two participants
- the ruote quickstart details how to install the ruote and gem and to write a first process definition and then launch a few instances of it
basic documentation
- examples/engine_template.rb is a piece of Ruby code (lots of comments though) instantiating a ruote engine, it details all the common engine configuration switches.
- the ruote engine expects [business] process definitions as a set of expressions.
- there are three ways to write process definitions, as XML, as Ruby or directly as process definition tree.
- the engine communicates with the external world via participants that abstract the ‘who’ or ‘what’ is handling the workitems handed by the engine (to them, participants).
- there are various persistence flavours for the engine
advanced documentation
- the glossary enumerates concepts and terms used throughout Ruote and attempts at giving explanations for them
- ruote’s rdoc (raw ruby documentation)
- some notes about process administration
- on_error / on_cancel are two expression attributes used to redirect the flow of a process in case of error or just when it gets cancelled
- a few lines about interaction between engine and participants (local or remote).
- ‘workflow patterns’ provide a conceptual basis for process technology, they are enumerated by the research groups of Prof van der Aalst and Prof ter Hofstede at http://workflowpatterns.com the following documentation piece details how a certain number of control flow patterns can be implemented with Ruote
blog excerpts
a few links to blog posts about ruote.