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The big news that I hinted at yesterday was that the ThoughtWorks Rails-based project management tool, Mingle, is the world's first commercially-distributed JRuby application. Actually, I think it might be the first commercially-distributed Ruby on Rails application also.

I got a one-on-one demo of Mingle yesterday, and I did think it was pretty innovative. For instance, its tag space consists of a flattened set of the application's lookup table values, which enables a bunch of workflow functionality that I've never seen before. Very cool. Unless the economics are an issue, I believe they've already blown past the nearest competitor, Trac.