eiresis - The Social Network for eDemocracy

Requirements

• PostgreSQL 9 with the hstore extension enabled.
• Redis in order to execute Sidekiq and all background jobs.

Local installation

1. Download the project

git clone https://github.com/ciscord/Eiresis.git
cd eiresis

2. Install the libraries

bundle

3. Configure environment variables (such as PayPal, Google Maps API, etc.), run

cp config/application.example.yml config/application.yml

then edit the .yml file and set your custom values 4. Bootstrap the database, populating it with initial data (be advised: it needs ~ 5 minutes)

bundle exec rake db:setup

5. Run eiresis

bundle exec rails s

7. run Sidekiq

bundle exec sidekiq

Done! You have now a working version of eiresis!

Foreman

If you want to run all processes in a single command you can use Foreman

bundle exec foreman start

and it will take care of running everything for you.

Mailman

Users can reply in the forum by email. Run

ruby script/mailman_server.rb

in background to receive emails and create forum posts from them.

Docker

See Docker README

Seeding more data

You'll probably need some fake data in your development environment to test stuff. These scripts are available:

bundle exec rake eiresis:seed:more:public_proposals[number]

Will generate number fake proposals in public open space and number new users (one for each proposal)

bundle exec rake eiresis:seed:more:votable_proposals[number]

Will generate number fake proposals in public open space in vote for the next three days and number new users (one for each proposal)

bundle exec rake eiresis:seed:more:clear_proposals

Destroy all the proposals in the database

To generate other fake data look at spec/factories folder.

Environment variables

Look at application.example.yml for a detailed explanation of each environment variable.

I18n

Contribute on Crowdin to the Translation of the project

What else should I know? What are we working on right now?

We want to take out everything which is related to our installation and make it easier to install.

Our main goal is to make it even more simple and usable for everybody!