May 14: Modeling Workflow in Ruby on Rails by David Bock

Posted by Gray Herter Tue, 12 May 2009 01:08:00 GMT

Title: Modeling Workflow in Ruby on Rails

Food: Pizza and sodas will be provided.

Time: 6:30 PM - 9 PM.

Description: "Workflow" is a generic concept that can mean different things to different people – a book author is going to think of workflow a lot differently than a photographer processing images. Whether you are implementing a simple shopping cart or building a complex system to track the review of legal documents, there are abstract concepts of states, transitions, actions, actors, assignments, tasking, concurrency, sequences, and dependencies we can use.

Come learn about tools and techniques for implementing workflow concepts in Ruby and Rails. From user stories with `shoulda', through state machines, to complete workflow engines like OpenWFEru, this is a rich space with a lot to learn.

Speaker: David Bock is a founder and principal at CodeSherpas, a software engineering consultancy in the Northern Virginia area. Prior to falling in love with Ruby, Mr. Bock spent many years writing custom workflow solutions in Java for the U.S. State Department. His work in this space protects the borders of many countries from hazardous imports and exports, and was instrumental in Poland meeting some reporting obligations for entry into NATO.

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