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Consul

Citizen Participation and Open Government Application

This is the opensource code repository of the eParticipation website originally developed for the Madrid City government eParticipation website

Current state

Development started on 2015 July 15th. Code was deployed to production on 2015 september 7th to decide.madrid.es. Since then new features are added often. You can take a look at a roadmap and future features in the open issues list.

Roadmap

See ROADMAP_ES.md

Tech stack

The application backend is written in the Ruby language using the Ruby on Rails framework.

Frontend tools used include SCSS over Foundation for the styles.

Configuration for development and test environments

Prerequisites: install git, ImageMagick, Ruby 2.2.3, bundler gem, ghostscript and PostgreSQL (>=9.4).

git clone https://github.com/consul/consul.git
cd consul
bundle install
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
bin/rake db:setup
RAILS_ENV=test bin/rake db:setup

Run the app locally:

bin/rails s

Prerequisites for testing: install PhantomJS >= 2.0

Run the tests with:

bin/rspec

Licence

Code published under AFFERO GPL v3 (see LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt)

Contributions

See CONTRIBUTING_EN.md