"Ekawada!" is a web application for categorizing, analyzing, comparing, and learning string figures.
The term "ekawada" is Nauruan for "string figure". Why Nauru? The Nauruan culture was well known for the extremely elaborate string figures it produced.
While the primary purpose behind Ekawada! is, as said above, to aid research into string figures, it was also written to help me learn Rails 3. As a result, the implementation is a bit "iffy" in places, as I'm working to learn best practices for Rails 3 (in particular, so-called "Unobtrusive Javascript", which Rails 3 has adopted with open arms).
Information on getting started with Ekawada is pending more research. You need to do some stuff with bundler, then some stuff to initialize your database. Then you can optionally run the "db:seed" rake task to get a default set of starter data.
Ekawada's source code is licensed under the BSD license.
Copyright © 2010 Jamis Buck. All Rights Reserved.
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