Place is a Ruby library aimed to gather and manage objects from Polarion ALM™ repositories. Its name comes from the contraction of "Polarion lace".

$ gem install place

Place collects informations from Polarion ALM ™ and turns it into easy manageable ruby objects, which are managed by excellent key-value store Redis, via the Ruby library Ohm.

Polarion ™ is an "Application Lifecycle Management" tool produced by Polarion Software GmbH. For more info on Polarion ALM ™ please refers to http://www.polarion.com/.

Basically I'd like to easy access to items inside a Polarion projects (namely "workitems"), as well as see relations among multiprojects workitems. That saved me a lot of time in extracting information and producing reports.

See the Examples wiki page, please.

• Place does not work with LiveDocument workitems, that are workitems stored in Microsoft document rather than .xml files.
• The actual version was tested under Linux and Mac OS X only.

Retrieving data from a repository working copy takes not too much time. Assuming the time required grows with the numbers of workitems, we experienced a total retrieve time of 60 seconds with 1700 workitems.

• add votes for workitems (and approvals, ...)
• (maybe) incremental update rather than one-shot gathering
• implement write back to repository (?)
• callback for each workitem type (es: complex calculated fields)

Place is written by Carlo Pecchia and released under the terms of Apache License (see LICENSE file).