Crowdfunding platform

This is the README file for a crowdfunding platform created first for jue.so website (Shanghai, 2011).

View test website http://deep-sword-8508.herokuapp.com/

Functionalities

Crowdfunding platform

• Crowfunding solution : rewarding, funding, deadline+expiration
• Follow project life through updates and comments
• Project moderation : submission require admin approval
• All registered users can submit projects

For creative people

• Customize profile (avatar, geo-loc, etc)
• Advanced users can open a personal portfolio
• Profile can be turn into personal website

Community-oriented

• Follow projects + users
• Post updates through profile
• Update profile through social networks (to be implemented)

Others

• Editorial : projects can be featured on home
• Multilingual : Includes English and Chinese
• Beta test : build for beta test and production

Admin

You can access admin control panel through

yourwebsite.com/admin

The ADMIN users are NOT related with users regitered through front-end website.

They are stored in separate tables and models (AdminUser).

Admins can be created through console only :

clemsos@ubuntu:~/Sites/jueso$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.9)
1.9.3p0 :001 > a = AdminUser.new
1.9.3p0 :002 > a.email = "email@website.com" 
1.9.3p0 :003 > a.password = "password"
1.9.3p0 :004 > a.save!
 => true 

About Users

For front-end users, there is 4 different users types (Role) :

* Admin : can do everything
* Member : can edit his profile, start a Proposal
* Artist : advanced profile (portfolio
* Institution 

You can add roles through admin interface. Permissions management : check app/models/ability.rb

Upload a project :

1. Register

2. Confirm account

3. Upload a project proposal (Proposal)

4. Proposals are reviewed by Admin (pending, rejected, accepted)

5. If proposal is accepted, then it becomes a project (Project)

   • published
   • unpublished
   • funded
   • expired (time out)
   • deleted (by Admin or User)

Enable beta test mode

When Beta mode is enable, you will have to add users to Beta list before they can register (BetaInvite).

To enable/disable beta invitations, uncomment/comment line 11 in app/model/User.rb

before_validation :beta_invited?

Requirements

Written with :

• Rails 3
• Ruby 1.9.3
• Mysql 5
• ImageMagik

Available under MIT License, Clément Renaud @clemsos, 2011