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I am currently running my troop off this software utilizing the free pricing tiers of Heroku, Mailgun, NewRelic and Papertrail. The only costs I have incurred are with AWS S3 for file storage (last months bill was 28 cents).

##Configure for your troop Edit the my_troop.yml file or set the ENV variable TROOP_CONFIG_FILE to point to your yml file

##User Roles ###Scout

• View their Scout Record
• View articles
• View Calendar
• Sign up for upcomming events

Parent

• View Scout/Scouts associated with them
• View articles
• View Calendar
• Sign up their Scout(s) for upcoming event
• Sign up themselves for upcoming event

Leader

• View all Scout
• View All Adult
• View Scouts by Patrol
• View Scouts by Position
• View Scouts by Rank
• View Scouts by Training
• Report for all Scouts
• Create Articles
• View Scouts marked inactive
• Essentially a read-only version of Leader_Full

Leader Full

• Add Scouts
• View all Scout
• View All Adult
• View Scouts by Patrol
• View Scouts by Position
• View Scouts by Rank
• View Scouts by Training
• Add Patrols
• Assign Scouts to Patrols
• Manage Scout Positions
• Manage Adult Positions
• Create Articles
• Create Events
• Log Scout as attended Events
• Log Adults as attended Events
• Log Rank Requirement as Complete
• Log Merit Badges Earned
• Log Training taken
• Log Awards Earned
• Create New Awards
• Run Reports
• Add Vehicles
• Associate Vehicle to Adult
• Associate Parent to Scout
• Set Notifications
• Create Article Categories
• Reports
• View Scouts marked inactive
• Reactive Scouts marked inactive

Admin

• Link Users to Adult Records
• Upload Files for Import
• Import Records from Troopmaster
• Add new Positions

Environmental Variables

• TROOP_CONFIG_FILE - specify a different yml file that holds troop information

• WEBSITE_URL - URL of your troops website

• DEVISE_SECRET_KEY - This is the "salt" used to encrypt your password. Highly suggest that you set this as the default is viewable in the code

• EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS - email address that outgoing mail will use

####Mailgun has a great free tier so we use them to send outgoing email

• MAILGUN_API_KEY

• MAILGUN_DOMAIN

• MAILGUN_PUBLIC_KEY

• MAILGUN_SMTP_LOGIN

• MAILGUN_SMTP_PASSWORD

• MAILGUN_SMTP_PORT

• MAILGUN_SMTP

• GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY - Sign up with google for an api key, free tier works great

####AWS S3 is used to store files you upload for import

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_REGION
• S3_BUCKET_NAME