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The DC21 application is a Ruby on Rails application built by Intersect Australia for the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment as part of an ANDS-Funded Data Capture Project - DC21 - Climate Change and Energy Research Facilities

There's an additional Github repository at https://github.com/IntersectAustralia/restful-api-uploader/ which provides at set of scripts that can be run on a PC to automatically load files from that PC into DC21.

Please feel free to browse any of the following documentation.

For everyone:

• 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
• Release Procedure - Best practices for re-deploying the application

For deployers:

• Deployment Guide - instructions on how to install the web application and do subsequent updates.
• Setting Up Automated Load From PC - how to automatically send files to DC21 from a PC

For developers:

• Developers Guide - useful information for future developers of the application.
  • Development Environment Setup - instructions for setting up a dev environment.
• Domain Model - overview of the domain concepts in the system.
• RIFCS Mapping - details of the RIFCS records produced by the system.
• File Upload API - details of the API for automatically uploading/downloading files
• 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.