Grim Views

So, I'm putting this here on the Otherworldly Issues forum to troll for some interest both inside and outside The Grim.

As many of The Grim (and probably a lot outside of The Grim) know , we use a EPGP based DKP system for some of our raids. Sadly, many of the online web tracking systems don't do EPGP well, do it as a system of hacks (EqDKP), or other web based programs that just suck ass (EqDKP Plus).

So, in that spirit, I decided to not only write my own DKP tracker, but also learn another language and framework at the same time. So, I've started a EPGP tracker written in Ruby on Rails. The current source code is on GitHub, and I'm currently migrating it to run on Heroku, so I don't have to set up a RoR server on our machine (yea, free hosting!). The EPGP DKP server (will be) on dkp.fishysnax.org for the time being.

I'm looking for people who can either help contribute code or try to break things. You don't need to know Ruby or Rails very well (since I am learning myself), but I ain't handholding you through Git...that's just a beast.

If you're interested, send me a PM with an email address. You'll also need a GitHub account, since commit rights will be done through pull requests (see, told ya you need to know git!).

I understand about nine words of this. I'd volunteer to help if I had the necessary skills. Good luck, bro!

Are you planning on translating the xml import from EQDKP into ruby from python?

Plan is to have the app handle the XML or whatever garbage string is coughed out nowadays. I never liked the parsing nightmare that was EqDKP for that.