Within the clinical enterprise I'm working for we have a need for spreading messages from several sources quickly through the hospitals. The messages derive from the IT center, the facility management and other service centers.

Since I'm a rails aficionado I got the idea to write a rails app to solve the problem.

Being even a small app News TickoR still has several features built in:

• Messages are delivered in XHMTL, XML, RSS and PDF format. Ability to export an OPML file for Feedreader.
• Several messages sources can be handled.
• There ia a rights management implemented that distinguishes between admins, editors and authors.
• Authentication against LDAP built-in.
• Localization through the globalize plugin.

Thanks to the giants on whose shoulders I stand to get my work down:

• David Heinemeier Hansson and 37 signals for Ruby on Rails
• RubyForge for giving a home from my projects.
• Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH for Webistrano
• Thoughtworks Inc. for CruiseControl.rb
• Eclipse Foundation for Eclipse
• Aptana for Aptana Studio and RadRails
• Edgewall for Trac
• Collabnet for Subversion

and

CrystalXP for the icons

I know the real rails guys use Macs, TextMate, github and Lighthouse instead. But I always use the things I deserve.