Staticmethod

Current I have a project (using Ruby on Rails) that I’ve been working on off and on for a few months and another project that I’m considering starting with a friend. Both of them are non-trivial, and I’m already accumulating quite a few files in source control for the one I’ve been working on. I really wanted a nice clean app for tracking project tasks and ideas and my first thought was just a wiki, but I quickly came to the conclusion that just a wiki wasn’t really what I wanted. Then I found Redmine.

Redmine is a project management app written in Ruby on Rails, it’s got a lot of features that I’ve just started exploring. For each project you set up you get the following resources: a “task” list (bugs and features, etc), a document store, a wiki, a calendar, gantt chart generation, time tracking (tied to tasks I think) and version control integration (I’ve only played with subversion so far). It’s all presented in a really clean interface, and so far seems to have a lot of the features I’ve seen in other pieces of software like bugzilla, jira, confluence.

Installation was very easy on my Dreamhost server, I basically followed their instructions which included untarring, creating the database and running a few Rake targets and I was up and running. I got my first user, project and task created in roughly 20 minutes.

You can find the project at www.redmine.org