Rhythm is a Web-based issue and project tracking tool. It is the open source version of a tool originally developed by me (Moses Hohman) at Northwestern University's Center for Functional Genomics for project and issue tracking within our bioinformatics group. I rewrote Rhythm using Ruby on Rails in early 2006, but have since left NU and am no longer using the tool (see News below).

Rhythm aims to be:

System requirements:

Rhythm is currently live and in active use at Northwestern, however it's missing functionality needed for those who want to start using it from scratch (stuff for setting up projects -- we have preexisting data so we don't need that functionality). Once those features are completed, I will release the bundle as version 0.9.

If you're curious to check out the code before the release, it's available from the subversion repository. However, be aware that the code there is still unfinished and not completely usable.

You can read more about the choices that went into Rhythm in this paper that I presented at the Agile 2005 conference.

News