Open Access

Open Access is an initiative of Food & Society at the Aspen Institute, with support generously provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation). It’s an open-source code web portal that cities and organizations can use to help navigate how to plan, launch and grow small food businesses. To learn more about this project, please visit https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/food-and-society-program/open-access-equitable-equity-for-food-entrepreneurs/

The portal structure was inspired by the business portal projects designed and built by Code for America and Long Beach i-team, and the template content was modeled on and drawn from the Franklin County Food Business Portal, Minneapolis Small Business portal, and the Long Beach i-team portal.

The application is build on Ruby on Rails. The application features a front end build with Bootstrap and a simple backend admin. Admin users can edit and update content as needed without coding experience. The block style editor used is https://editorjs.io/

Other Considerations and Set up:

Prerequisites

Ruby Version 3.1.1

Rails 7.02

Devise

Depending on your application's configuration some manual setup may be required:

1. Ensure you have defined default url options in your environments files. Here is an example of default_url_options appropriate for a development environment in config/environments/development.rb: config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', port: 3000 } - Required for all applications*

2. Ensure you have defined root_url to something in your config/routes.rb. For example: root to: "home#index" - Not required for API-only Applications*

3. Ensure you have flash messages in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb

   For Example:

   <%= notice %>
   <%= alert %>
   

   • Not required for API-only Applications*

4. You can copy Devise views(for customization) to you app by running:

   rails g devise:views
   

   • Not required*

Uploads

To directly upload photos, an image hosting service needs to be installed. Currently, all images are uploaded in the application’s folder

License

This project is open source and can be used when crediting the source.

Open Access © 2022 by Food & Society at the Aspen Institute is licensed under CC BY 4.0