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 Its roots come from a similar project called ProjectPier (previously known as ActiveCollab), 
 which instead of Ruby is written in PHP.
 
+##Note regarding future development
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+As of 16-Feb-2012, development of RailsCollab from this branch has been permanently discontinued. Please refer to alternative forks for any future releases.
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 ## Manage projects. How?
 
 In RailsCollab, you have the following: