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The ACData application is a Ruby on Rails application built by Intersect Australia for the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre as part of an ANDS-Funded Data Capture Project (DC5H). It also integrates with Membrane Research Environment and Electronic Lab Notebook.

Please feel free to browse any of the following documentation

For everyone:

• User Manual
• Product Overview
• Cucumber Features - these are our automated acceptance tests, and they express (in plain English) the requirements of the system. This is a great place to start if you want to get an understanding of what the system does. There's a number of different ways to access them:
  • Browse on Github
  • Clone the repository and browse in your preferred tool
• Overview Diagram

For deployers:

• Local Deployment Guide - instructions on how to install the application
• Adding New Instrument File Types - instructions on how to create new metadata parsers

For developers:

• Developers Guide - useful information for future developers of the application
  • Development Environment Setup - instructions for setting up a local dev environment
• Domain Model - overview of the domain concepts in the system
• RSpec tests - the RSpec examples express the detailed requirements so are a good place to start getting an understanding of what the system does. There's a number of different ways to access them:
  • Browse on Github
  • Clone the repository and browse in your preferred tool