These are all very good applications and have served myself and my clients well, but they’ve suffered from several very big flaws. The first big flaw was the cost. You can easily drop $100 or more a month across these different services. But that wasn’t the biggest flaw or problem I’ve had with these services. The biggest problem was lack of integration.

So what do I mean by lack of integration? Well, when an error comes in I want to easily be able to create a new issue from it. When the issue gets resolved, so should the error. If the error reoccurs it should re-open automatically, and so should the issue. I want to be able to create an issue right from a document or be able to attach issues to a document. I should be able to follow the flow from document to issue to error and back again very easily. Unfortunately, these applications don’t give you that level of integration. They offer some level, but just not enough.

Well, my friends, welcome to the future. Welcome to FluxTracker.com. FluxTracker combines a great issue tracker, a project management system, and an error tracker all in one application. Now you can full integration without any configuration, oh, and you can do it at a fraction of the cost!

We know it isn’t easy to switch to a different application, that’s why we’ve made it easy for you. You can easily import your Lighthouse account. FluxTracker also allows you to easily use the Hoptoad Notifier plugin for your project by just setting a few configuration parameters.

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“Anyone working with distributed programming in Ruby will want this book.”

The only downside they saw in the book, was that they wanted it to be longer! I have to save something for the 2nd edition, don’t I?

If you haven’t purchased yours yet, I encourage you to do so. It’s on sale at Amazon.com right now.

If you have reviewed the book, or know of a review of the book, please pass it along.

http://railsenvy.com/2008/10/15/rails-envy-podcast-episode-051-10-15-2008

Thanks again guys for the inclusion, and keep up the good work!

http://www.railsenvy.com/2008/9/3/rails-envy-podcast-episode-045-09-03-2008

As always, if you don’t subscribe to the podcast, you definitely should. It’s one of the best ones around.

http://www.rubyinside.com/mack-distributed-ruby-web-application-framework-releases-070-1107.html 

If you’re not familiar with the podcast, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a very informative, and highly entertaining podcast about all things Ruby.

Good work guys, keep it up!

As you may, or may not not, I’m a big fan of Ruby Inside. It’s one of my favorite Ruby based blogs on the web. Peter Cooper does a great job with this site, and has recently started the RubyFlow.com website, which is a bit more of a ‘firehouse of Ruby’ type site. 

Anyway, today Peter gave a very favorable review of Mack. I would definitely encourage you to head on over and have a read of it.

Thanks Peter.

Here’s the podcast: http://railsenvy.com/assets/2008/3/12/Podcast_22.mp3

Make sure to checkout their other podcasts, RailsEnvy.com Those guys do a great job, and their quite funny to listen to as well.

Other Mack Sitings:

http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/03/13/rails-podcast-brasil-episodio-9/ – This appears to be the RailsEnvy podcast in Portuguese, but since I don’t speak Portuguese, so I can’t really say.

http://blog.libinpan.com/2008/03/13/links-for-2008-03-13/

http://maraby.org/post/27611841

http://sness.blogspot.com/2008/02/mack.html

http://anarchaia.org/archive/2008/02/28.html

http://yogindar.blogspot.com/2008/02/ruby-web-application-framework-mack.html