Fix Democracy First

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tl;dr

• Applicable skills Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS/JS
• Slack #gh-fixdemocracyfirst
• Project lead @bucchere

3rd-Party Depedencies

1. RVM
2. postgres
3. redis
4. Elastic Search

Do not proceed until you have all the dependencies installed and running. (On OSX, your best bet is to install postgres, redis and elastic search using homebrew.)

Local Environment Setup

1. Clone the git repo

2. Install Ruby 2.2.1 on RVM: rvm install 2.2.1

3. Select the global gemset under ruby 2.2.1: rvm use 2.2.1@fixdemocracyfirst

4. Install Bundler in the global gemset: gem install bundler

5. Create a custom gemset for fixdemocracy: rvm gemset create fixdemocracyfirst

6. Select the gemset and ruby version: rvm use 2.2.1@fixdemocracyfirst

7. cd into your local git repo's directory

8. Run bundler: bundle install

9. Set environment variables for foreman by creating a .env file in your project directory with these variables (and ask one of us for the missing values so we can get them to you securely):

   S3_BUCKET=fixdemocracyfirst-stage
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
   AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
   AWS_REGION=us-west-1
   REDISTOGO_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:6379/
   RAILS_RESQUE_REDIS=redis://127.0.0.1:6379/
   RESQUE_ADMIN_PASSWORD= #set this to whatever value you like
   SEARCHBOX_URL=http://localhost:9200
   JANRAIN_API_KEY=
   URL=http://localhost:3000
   

10. Create and seed the database: foreman run bundle exec rake db:setup

11. Start the server locally: foreman run bundle exec rails s

12. Visit http://localhost:3000

13. Create an account for yourself by visiting http://localhost:3000/admin and logging in with Facebook

14. Launch a rails console foreman run bundle exec rails c and execute this command to admin-ize your user account: User.last.update_attribute(:admin, true)

Note: When viewing the Resque Web Console for the first time, you'll receive a basic auth challenge. Respond with username fixdemocracyfirst and the password you set for RESQUE_ADMIN_PASSWORD in your .env file and ask the browser to remember your credentials (if you want).

Contributing (using the fork-and-pull model)

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a topic branch git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Implement your feature or bug fix and add tests
4. Ensure that foreman run bundle exec rake passes
5. Commit your changes git commit -am 'Added some feature and some tests'
6. Push to the branch git push origin my-new-feature
7. Create a pull request

Code of Conduct

The Lessig Equal Citizens Exploratory Committee is committed to fostering an open and inclusive community where engaged, dedicated volunteers can build the strategy and tools necessary to fix our country's democracy. All members of the community are expected to behave with civility, speak honestly and treat one another respectfully.

This project adheres to the Open Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to honor this code.

This reference as well as the included copy of the Code of Conduct shall be included in all forks and distributions of this repository.

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Copyright and License

Copyright 2015 Lessig Equal Citizens Exploratory Committee. This project is released under GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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