decision_participant

Decision participants were named ‘CSV participants’ prior to ruote 2.1.

Make sure you have the gem “rufus-decision” installed in order to
use this decision participant.

blog post

This Rufus::Decision::Participant was introduced in the “ruote and
decision tables” blog post :

http://jmettraux.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/ruote-and-decision-tables/

example

In this example, a participant named ‘decide_team_member’ is bound in the
ruote engine and, depending on the value of the workitem fields ‘topic’
and region, sets the value of the field named ‘team_member’ :

              require 'rufus/decision/participant'
            
              engine.register_participant(
                :decide_team_member
                Rufus::Decision::Participant, :table => %{
                  in:topic,in:region,out:team_member
                  sports,europe,Alice
                  sports,,Bob
                  finance,america,Charly
                  finance,europe,Donald
                  finance,,Ernest
                  politics,asia,Fujio
                  politics,america,Gilbert
                  politics,,Henry
                  ,,Zach
                })
            
              pdef = Ruote.process_definition :name => 'dec-test', :revision => '1' do
                sequence do
                  decide_team_member
                  participant :ref => '${team_member}'
                end
              end

A process instance about the election results in Venezuela :

              engine.launch(
                pdef,
                'topic' => 'politics',
                'region' => 'america',
                'line' => 'election results in Venezuela')

would thus get routed to Gilbert.

To learn more about decision tables :

http://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-decision

pointing to a table via a URI

Note that you can reference the table by its URI :

              engine.register_participant(
                :decide_team_member
                Rufus::Decision::Participant,
                :table => 'http://decisions.example.com/journalists.csv')

If the table were a Google Spreadsheet, it would look like (note the
trailing &output=csv) :

              engine.register_participant(
                :decide_team_member
                Rufus::Decision::Participant,
                :table => 'http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pCZNVR1TQ&output=csv')