On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Peter Dalmaris<[email protected]> wrote: > > However, I am not convinced yet that Ruote is the way to go. I would > be very interested to hear relevant stories from the members of this > group. Descriptions of production applications build with Ruote, > successes and failures, arguments for or against this solution, words > of wisdom etc. > > I suppose any responses could be compiled into a Ruote "showcase".
Hi Peter, thanks for your interest in ruote. You seem to need to build a dossier for your ruote pre-sales. A few links at first : http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users/browse_frm/thread/faef1ae7484f043d http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-dev/browse_frm/thread/faef1ae7484f043d This census was done 6 months ago. Since then at least two organizations have started using ruote. Since I'm the founder of the project, let me draft a non-exhaustive list of its bad points (exaggerations included) : 1) it's a project, not a product 2) it's not adapted to the average ruby developer who truncate workflow to "let's use a state machine" 3) your boss will hate it, it's not "standard" (no BPEL, no XPDL) 4) the domain experts will hate it, it doesn't [yet] import their visio diagrams 5) it's hard to scale (that's changing, but the initial 1 organization wf engine use case is still present) 6) you can't buy support 7) you will have to acquire support anyway (be part of the community) 8) it's moving from 0.9 to 2.0 (http://github.com/jmettraux/ruote/tree/ruote2.0) that means ruote-web2 will be upgrade to ruote2.0 very soon 9) there is more documentation than the average project, but it's never the right one 10) there is no showcase and it's hard to get someone to compile it for free 11) it's obscure and weird (maybe only "original") Now I hope others in the list will pop and add their bad points as well. If you are not convinced, don't use it. Best regards, -- John Mettraux - http://jmettraux.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ you received this message because you are subscribed to the "ruote users" group. to post : send email to [email protected] to unsubscribe : send email to [email protected] more options : http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
