Hey thanks for all your answers to far! Here's what I've been working with (sorry if this only makes sense to Rails folks--ask me about a certain section, and I

Hey thanks for all your answers to far! Here's what I've been working with (sorry if this only makes sense to Rails folks--ask me about a certain section, and I'll try to clarify to non-Rails people as best I can): -A ruby gem called rools -sample rule: rule 'foo' do parameter SomeObject condition { some_object.attribute == 'something_else' } consequence { some_object.change_state! } end -inside of the application_controller, I run a before_filter with this code: rules = Rools:RuleSet.new 'path/to/file/that/has/rules.rb' so = SomeObject.find(:first) rules.assert so