A unified publishing application for content on GOV.UK
- Content - Some text (and related fields) a user wants to publish
- Revision - A version of a piece of content in a particular locale
- Edition - A revision that is in the Publishing API
- Document - All revisions of a piece of content in a particular locale
This is a Ruby on Rails application.
- postgresql - provides a backing database
- yarn - package manager for JavaScripts
- imagemagick - image manipulation library
The first time you run this application you'll want to set you permissions.
Then, if you are running on the GOV.UK development VM:
cd /var/govuk/govuk-puppet/development-vm
bowl content-publisher
You should be able to access the app at: http://content-publisher.dev.gov.uk/
Otherwise, on your machine:
./startup.sh
yarn install
bundle exec rake
### Permissions
Functionality of this application is enabled with permissions. There is a
pre_release_features permission, for using functionality not yet available to
users, and there is a debug permission, to access debug and documentation in
app.
To enable these permissions in a development environment run:
bundle exec rake developer_permissions
To enable them for your GOV.UK account add them to your account in signon.
To populate your local database with Whitehall content there is a task in Whitehall to export data and a task in Content Publisher to import that output.
To export from Whitehall, you need to have a cloned copy of Whitehall with a populated database, cd into the whitehall directory and run:
bundle exec rake export:news_documents 2>&1 | grep created_at > /tmp/whitehall-export.json
This will take a while to run (~30 mins), this can be reduced by limiting the output with filters
To import this exported file into Content Publisher, you need to cd into the content publisher directory and run:
bundle exec rake import:whitehall_news INPUT=/tmp/whitehall-export.json