Welcome to the (temporarily) combined RAMP and SMART Projects.
Ramp is a program that supports domain expert access to a relational database. Whereas a program like phpMyAdmin is aimed at database administrators who need to update and maintain a database, Ramp is aimed at the store owner, librarian, registrar, or other professional who needs to access and update the data in a structured set of tables.
Ramp's software treats the tables in a database generically, but provides reasonably light-weight methods for customizing the user's interaction with those tables to give the appearance of an application-specific program. The two primary mechanisms for this customization are activity lists, which provide a customized interface to the structure of the tables, and table settings, which provide customized views of tables. Activity files and table settings are created as ini configuration files, making it relatively easy to create a Ramp-based application to interact with any new set of tables.
For more information about Ramp, see [About RAMP] aboutRamp.
Smart is a Ramp-based program that provides a set of activity files and table settings appropriate for managing academic records, including curriculum records (e.g., programs available, course modules, and course module schedules) and student records (e.g., enrolled program, course module history, test scores).
For more information about Smart, see [About SMART] aboutSmart.
In time, the plan is to separate Ramp and Smart into separate projects, and to expand Smart to include customized activities specific to the academic records domain (as opposed to the more general-purpose activities supported by Ramp).
RAMP/SMART Release 0.5.4.
Released on December 7, 2013.
Ramp is set up to work with tables defined in a MySQL database, using the Zend Framework.
RAMP (Record and Activity Management Program) was developed using [Apache HTTP Server 2] apache, [MySQL Community Server 5] mysql (5.5), [PHP 5] php (5.3) and [Zend Framework 1] zf1 (1.11.11). It has also been tested with later versions up to MySQL 5.6.13, PHP 5.4.19, and Zend Framework 1.12. It does not work yet with [Zend 2] zf2, which is a completely redesigned version of the Zend Framework.
Ramp also uses Michel Fortin's [PHP Markdown Lib 1.3] md, which
depends on PHP 5.3, for converting Markdown text to HTML, and
[twitter-bootstrap-zf1] tbz, a library to work with [Twitter
Bootstrap 2] tb and Zend Framework 1. Ramp uses several of the Glyph
icons provided in Twitter Bootstrap by Glyphicons.
Ramp also includes some dependencies on HTML 5. Thus the full list of dependencies is:
Apache HTTP Server 2
MySQL Community Server, version 5.3 or later
PHP, version 5.3 or later
Zend Framework 1, version 1.11.10 or later (but not Zend Framework 2)
PHP Markdown Lib 1.3
twitter-bootstrap-zf
Twitter Bootstrap 2 (but not Twitter Bootstrap 3)
Browsers that support HTML 5
The current version of Ramp includes bundled versions of the
Zend Framework 1, the Markdown library, the twitter-bootstrap-zf1
library, and a subset of Twitter Bootstrap 2. (See the [License section]
license-section for information about the licenses for those
components.)
See [INSTALL.md] install for more details about the software
infrastructure on which Ramp depends, including specific Apache modules.
[TODO: Need to provide at least an overview of what will be found (and what to look for) in INSTALL.md before directing people off to that file.] Please see [INSTALL.md] install. (Under construction...)
The source files for Ramp/Smart are released under a BSD 2-Clause license. You can find a copy of this license in [LICENSE.md] license.
[TODO: Need to choose the correct CC license for documentation. Do activity files and table settings fit under software or documentation for licensing purposes?]
The following software may be included with this project:
Zend Framework 1 (version 1.11.11): The Zend Framework license is included as [LICENSE-ZF1.txt] zf-license.
PHP Markdown Lib 1.3: The Markdown Library license is included as [License-php-markdown-lib.md] md-license.
twitter-bootstrap-zf1 and Twitter Bootstrap: The
Twitter-Bootstrap-ZF1 license is
included as [README-twitter-bootstrap-zf1.md] tbz-license; the Twitter
Bootstrap license as [LICENSE-bootstrap-2.3.2] tb-license.
The Ramp/Smart team would like to thank all the contributors to the Ramp/Smart project and the institutional supporters who have provided time, expertise, and money.
Institutional supporters include:
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Njala University, Sierra Leone
The Arcus Center for Socal Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Individual contributors include:
Keaton Adams
Giancarlo Anemone
Alyce Brady
Christopher Cain
Katrina Carlsen
Chris Clerville
Ryan Davis
Ashton Galloway
Guilherme Guedes
Simon Haile
Tristan Kiel
Lucas Kushner
Justin Leatherwood
Tendai Mudyiwa
William Reichle
Renjie Song
Kyle Sunden
Jiakan Wang
Riley Wetzel