Rails - Aug 2005 - Groupware anyone?

I''m a recent rails adoptee, and I''m now using it in production
for the
public site for the political campaign I''m working for. Switching was
the best move I ever made.

However, I''m in a bit of a pickle. I''ve been spending a great
deal of
time working on the external site, but now we''re in need of an
internal/groupware solution. And unfortunately, to keep up with the
rigourous development timeline for the external app(s), I don''t have
the time to develop my own from scratch.

I have looked around, but all of the rails-based project management
apps I found (including basecamp, although i still heart it) just
don''t fit. We really need the shared calendaring, and the milestones
paradigm just doesn''t jive.

I also tried implimenting eGroupWare, but oh my gosh is it a mess.
There still might be some hope in being able to coax it into working.
But, It''d really be nice to find an app that wasn''t so needy.

So, my wisened comrades, might one of you have any thoughts or suggestions?

I would still really love to find a rails-based solution, but at this
point I''ll settle for anything that doesn''t totally suck.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Dan Weinand

I''m not sure that there is such a thing (yet), but out of curiosity
would you list all the features that you would want in such an
application?  Maybe put those features on the wiki so that when
someone finally does build it they can incorporate the features you
want.

-Shalev

On 8/8/05, Dan Weinand <dweinand-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m a recent rails adoptee, and I''m now using it in
production for the
> public site for the political campaign I''m working for. Switching
was
> the best move I ever made.
> 
> However, I''m in a bit of a pickle. I''ve been spending a
great deal of
> time working on the external site, but now we''re in need of an
> internal/groupware solution. And unfortunately, to keep up with the
> rigourous development timeline for the external app(s), I don''t
have
> the time to develop my own from scratch.
> 
> I have looked around, but all of the rails-based project management
> apps I found (including basecamp, although i still heart it) just
> don''t fit. We really need the shared calendaring, and the
milestones
> paradigm just doesn''t jive.
> 
> I also tried implimenting eGroupWare, but oh my gosh is it a mess.
> There still might be some hope in being able to coax it into working.
> But, It''d really be nice to find an app that wasn''t so
needy.
> 
> So, my wisened comrades, might one of you have any thoughts or suggestions?
> 
> I would still really love to find a rails-based solution, but at this
> point I''ll settle for anything that doesn''t totally suck.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> Dan Weinand
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Dan Weinand <dweinand@...> writes:
> 
> I''m a recent rails adoptee, and I''m now using it in
production for the
> public site for the political campaign I''m working for. Switching
was
> the best move I ever made.
> 
> 
> So, my wisened comrades, might one of you have any thoughts or suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
Well I''m a new rails adoptee as well and was looking for a groupware
solution as
well. The only thing I liked so far is dotproject (www.dotproject.com). See the
online demo.

Martijn

Hi Dan,

Go ahead and download the community edition of Scalix its got a great 
interface and gives you outlook like functionality on the web.

vikrant