Rails based Trac alternative Collaboa back in active development
The Collaboa project is back in effect and I’m seriously glad to hear it. I’ve been setting up the sugarstats VPS and of course I wanted to go with the popular kid on the blog Trac. But after some difficulty installing it and getting it to work with Nginx, I took another look at it and really just found well… I don’t like it at all :-
The design isn’t so great and the wiki is a bit lacking IMHO. So what I did was look for some better alternatives as I would rather have separate apps that work very well at what they do than one app that isn’t as great in those areas.
I’ve settled on DokuWiki as a dedicated wiki and I’m loving it so far. Its a PHP app but was simple to setup as a PHP Vhost in Nginx by passing it through a php-cgi instance.
For a nice, simple ticketing system and revisioning repo browser I came across Collaboa. The design I like and I just really find it straight-forward and simple to use. It has pretty much all the functionality of Trac minus the wiki which was barebones anyway, plus is built with Rails! I was somewhat concerned with the development efforts though as the last blog post was almost a year old! But when looking into the trunk of their code I was seeing commits only days old. Well they’ve announced that someone has started active development on it again (althought just a bit for now). I have the latest trunk version installed and its very stable and very quick as well off a single mongrel instance.
So if you’re looking for a Rails based ticketing/repo browsing app or a Trac alternative, give Collaboa a try.
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Posted on October 27, 2006
Filed Under CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Design, Marketing, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Web
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Way cool, Marston. I’ve used Trac, and it is quite the pain in the butt to configure. I’d love to check out this Rails project, especially because I’m a Ruby zealot
Sad but true…