In my experience with John, he's never denigrated any approach. In fact, he
encouraged me to use a state-machine approach rather than using a workflow
engine for my use case. While obviously opinionated - he is leading a
workflow engine project - he's been pretty objective/fair when it comes to
pros and cons of various approaches.

Damon

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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 2:25 AM, David Bock <[email protected]> wrote:

> StonePath hasn't been updated because it was just a simple DSL on top of a
> state machine and assignment concepts; those ideas are in active use in
> dozens of back office applications I've developed over the years, but
> maintaining a thin layer on top of ActiveRecord wasn't worth the effort
> after ActiveRecord was extensively refactored. (Yes, it was dependent on
> ActiveRecord, which wasn't suitable for some, but was perfect for the
> original projects I extracted it from).
>
> StonePath as a gem is legacy, but as a set of modeling concepts it's very
> much alive.  John has always denigrated state-based workflow concepts, but
> they are well-used... It is just a much different set of concepts.
>
> Sent from my iPad.  Please excuse any brvity, punctuation; or spalling
> mistakes.
>
> > On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:54 AM, John Mettraux <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:16:34AM -0800, Kiran Patil wrote:
> >>
> >> The recent commit to Github shows that "Active development on ruote
> ceased".
> >>
> >> Do you recommend https://github.com/bokmann/stonepath ?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > no, I cannot recommend it. It hasn't been updated in 3 years and its
> website
> > is down.
> >
> >> Please let us know what are the best alternatives for ruote.
> >
> > You could use JRuby and jBPM http://www.jboss.org/jbpm or Activiti
> > http://www.activiti.org/
> >
> > I am not able to tell you what is the "best alternative".
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
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