gantDB

gnatDB is a lightweight personal data tracking service that encourages users to record everything and add meaning to collected data at some later date. gnatDB collects daily data points (data, context, and tags), for example: 10 pushups, exercise, arms and 5.50 hamburger, food, purchase, junk.

Install

• Download and unzip gantDB
• Create (rake db:create) and initialize (take db:migrate) the database
• Start the application (script/start)
• View the application (http://localhost:3000)

History

The gantDB web application was developed by Jason Brownlee in late 2008 as an experiment in personal data collection. The experiment was inspired by Datum. The web application was launched on the domain http://gnatdb.com and was later decommissioned before the end of 2008.

Technology

gnatDB was developed using Ruby on Rails 2.1.1 and used the bort project to jump start development.

Screenshot

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008-2009, Jason Brownlee

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.