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FreeMIS is an open source management information system for schools, built with Ruby on Rails. I haven''t come across any other big open source projects using Rails so far - if nothing else, the availability of the source code might be useful for learners looking for ideas? If anyone would be interested in helping to develop FreeMIS, please get in touch. Details here:

...has worked out well for them. I''m working on some extensions of the idea, and, not being a Ruby hacker, could use some guidance. Specifically, I want the teachers to be able to create webs that are pre-populated with a list of authors (the students in the class). Fetching the list from SchoolTool, the Zope3-based school admin system I''m working on (http://www.schooltool.org/Members/hoffman/news/rubyex) but I can''t quite figure out how to seed the web with the list of authors. That is, assuming that it is at all valid to create a list of authors who haven''t yet co...