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SummaryCurrent status of BioRails development

Description *h1. BioRails Status We apologise for the apparent lack of changes on the core project. This is partly because we are victims of our own success. We have all been working very hard on customer projects and a number of large enterprise deployments. We have completed releases 3.1 and 3.2 of BioRails Enterprise in the past year. These focused on Oracle, LDAP and electronic signatures development. The open core has largely stayed as the 3.0 level and now needs some work to integrate back in these new features and big changes from the 4.x development stream. At present the open BioRails is in a 3.x -> 4.x transition as we move code into this stream. For the present those interested in using BioRails as application should contact us so we can discuss how best to support your needs. h3. 4.x development The initial 4.x change were focused on enterprise only features like electronic signature. Now we are progressing with a basic UI rework to simplify the interface, focusing on a improving navigation. The new UI is looking good and we are progressing towards a Q3 testing /Q4 release. * [done] Sorted out jruby and rails 2.3 issues so application now run on all versions of rails and both native and java environments * [done] Changed folder data versioning and signature infrastructure * [done] Improved folder UI * [done] add user defined dashboards structure * [todo] Porting project/study/experiment and task view to new dashboards * [todo] Rework of the reports/cross tab to produce a common UI * [todo] advanced recipes combining structured data, document folders and reports. h3. packaging We are currently assessing a reworks of the packages to produce a easy to install windows server. The current 3.x is largely based on rpm and msi installations which need a rework. Can now use the built in rails/apache environments on most linux distributions. For a portable windows/mac/linux install we will produce a simple java WAR and deploy with with glassfish or tomcat. So progress is being made all be it off-line from the open project. We will be moving some of these developments into the open version and but make no apologies for needing to earn money to support further development of BioRails. If you'd like to explore using BioRails for your organisation or personal use please do contact us, we'd love to help.