I’ve decided to create a new series of posts called “GitHub Project Watch” to highlight some of the projects on GitHub that I am watching. It’s kind of like GitHub Rebase, but with my own personal touch.
Here are some of the projects that I’m watching this week:
- jmettraux/ruote: an open source workflow engine built with Ruby. I might be using this for a project I’m working on. Also see jmettraux/ruote-web2 for a demonstration of how to integrate ruote with Ruby on Rails.
- brynary/webrat: automated acceptance testing with Ruby. It can simulate a simple browser on its own or drive a real browser via Selenium. Apparently there’s some work in progress on integrating with Watir and Celerity as well.
- radiant/radiant: RadiantCMS, the lightweight web content management system for Ruby on Rails. I’m contributing a Japanese translation, the current version of which is currently available in the official i18n branch. (also see kbingman/radiant and enricob/radiant)
- chriseppstein/compass: As I wrote previously, Compass is gaining new features at an incredible rate. It now sports improved Rails integration, Blueprint 0.9, an extension system, and asset hosts support. As an added bonus, it no longer depends on edge Haml; it will work with the newest stable release of Haml, 2.2.0. This is one of the most watched repositories on GitHub for a reason — if you’re not already using this, try it today!
I’m sure that I will hear of even more awesome projects at Future Ruby.
Hello Enrico,
thanks for linking to ruote. We’re hard at work on its 2.0 version (http://github.com/jmettraux/ruote/tree/ruote2.0). Sorry for not being present in #ruote yesterday when you asked your question. If there is nobody replying, feel free to fire questions at http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users).
One note, I know it’s a githbub project watch post, but I have this impression that your “person/project” way of designating projects/forks might become ubiquitous, github being implicit ;) Very interesting.
Cheers,
Hey John,
No problem. If it weren’t for your project, I’d probably be panicking while trying to implement my own workflow system from scratch. =)
A strange quirk with the office network at my day job is that I can’t access Google Groups if I’m logged in to my Google Account. I’m not sure why it is but I’m trying to get it worked out. I’ll try and use the group more but that’s the reason why I tend to ask questions on the IRC channel.