Class: RailsWorkflow::ProcessTemplate

Inherits:
ActiveRecord::Base
  • Object
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Includes:
RailsWorkflow::ProcessTemplates::DefaultBuilder
Defined in:
app/models/rails_workflow/process_template.rb

Overview

Rails Workflow engine using Process Templates to configure processes. Process template allows you to configure future process operations and their dependencies. In addition to that it allows you to configure process itlesf. If you will try to create new process template you will see following form:

Here you can specify following process template parameters:

Manager class - manager class is responsible for starting, building and completing process. It also may have additional functions (for example broadcasting messages between processes) so you can specify some custom process manager for your process or just use default one.

Process class - responsible for starting, and stopping process, it's operations completion, resolving dependencies (deciding if new operations should be build when existing process operations changins statuses). You can specify some custom process class or use default.

Type - process template class. Process Template class is responsible for building process and it's independent operations. You can use some custom process template class here or just use default one.

Here you can see process template operations list:

Instance Method Summary (collapse)

Methods included from RailsWorkflow::ProcessTemplates::DefaultBuilder

#build_independent_operations, #build_operation, #build_process!

Instance Method Details

- (Array<RailsWorkflow::OperationTemplate>) dependent_operations(operation)

Searches operation templates that depends on a given operation's template.

Parameters:

Returns:



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# File 'app/models/rails_workflow/process_template.rb', line 60

def dependent_operations operation
  operations.select do |top|
    top.dependencies.select do |dp|
      dp['id'] == operation.template.id && dp['statuses'].include?(operation.status)
    end.present?
  end
end

- (Array<RailsWorkflow::OperationTemplates>) independent_operations

Independent operations is operations which has no dependencies. When default builder (process template) is building process it also build independent operations for that process. When process is starting - it also starts all operations which is already exists in process (by default - independent operations)

Returns:



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# File 'app/models/rails_workflow/process_template.rb', line 53

def independent_operations
  operations.independent_only.to_a
end