Some time ago I wrote an article on YAWL for Ruby on Rails. YAWL stands for Yet Another Workflow Language. Recently the creators of YAWL seemed to have moved their brainchild under the wings of a foundation.

I’m still working on a Ruby implementation which, once finished probably will be open-sourced in the form of a Gem. Either to be used within rails as a plugin, or standalone for use within Ruby applications. Some time ago I also made a proof-of-concept Rails application, which has an example workflow (from the YAWL engine) and allows that to be instantiated into a ‘Case’ (a Workflow instance). I’m hereby opening up SVN access to that demo application.