We Work in Philly was forked from the citizenry project. It seems this project is no longer under active development. It is, however, useful for historical purposes and there is a rails 3.2 branch that hints at how to upgrade.
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled
rvm install ruby-1.9.2
gem update --system
gem install bundler
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" bundle install
brew install imagemagick
bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare
./go
NOTE: you must login as "sample user" when you run the application. we do not reveal the twitter/linkedin keys. if you're working on twitter/linkedin integration, you can provide your own keys in the go script.
Check out the Original Developer Notes. There is a lot of useful recipes that explain how to setup development machines, switching from staging to production, migration of databases, etc. It is not very organized though.