Promiserver
Trust, commitment, and labor in the highly connected society
Overview
Promiserver is a web-based service and toolset for creation of lightweight contracts – dubbed promises – that are written as code. The service providing a generalized tool and forum for dynamic creation, binding, and evaluation of promises.
The project explores new models of collaboration by offering a sensible, lightweight, and agile promise system as an alternative to traditionally heavy legal commitments. Developed 2005 - 2007 by Brent Fitzgerald at the Physical Language Workshop in the MIT Media Lab.
Technologies
Promiserver is a pure, standards-compliant XHTML/CSS/Javascript-based interface over REST-based XML and JSON APIs.
- Ruby on Rails
- REST API (JSON and XML)
- Custom, ruby-based promise domain-specific language (DSL)
- Javascript/AJAX drag/drop and live feedback while coding promises
- XHTML/CSS
- Promise status RSS feeds
- MySQL database
- Apache with proxy balancer
- Mongrel cluster