Introducing Guilder
I’m announcing a fun part-time project I am starting called Guilder: The World of Warcraft Guild Management System. The project has just started so there isn’t any code yet, but it is a serious effort I am undertaking to both solve some problems of guild management and to learn more and more about Ruby on Rails.
Yes, the code will be Ruby on Rails. Why not Grails like I have been fond of? Well, mainly personal reasons. After spending time with both platforms, I really feel like the best fit for the web is Rails. Grails is quite derivative and doesn’t have as large a community behind it, plus personally I feel it has more elegance to it. So back to Rails I come, and find a familiar friend with open arms.
Guilder will be licensed under the MIT License, an OSI-approved open source license. Why did I choose the MIT license over something like the GNU GPL? The MIT license is very flexible and not as restrictive as some of the other open source licenses out there. I can link my code to commercial libraries, people can fork the code and sell it, and basically do whatever. I dig that type of openness.
Progress will probably be slow on this because like I said it is a part-time endeavor, but it is there and I will be working on it. If you are interested in helping, let me know.