This is an open source project to create a standard, internationalised platform for making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests in different countries around the world. The software started off life as WhatDoTheyKnow, a website produced by mySociety for making FOI requests in the UK.
We hope that by joining forces between teams across the world, we can all work together on producing the best possible software, and help move towards a world where governments approach transparency as the norm, rather than the exception.
Please join our mailing list at https://groups.google.com/group/alaveteli-dev and introduce yourself.
Some documentation can be found in the
doc/ folder.
There's background information and a more documentation on
our wiki, and lots
of useful information (including a blog) on
the project website
Looking for the latest stable release? It's on the master branch.
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config libmagic-dev libpq-dev libmagickcore-dev libmagickwand-dev uuid-dev memcached postgresql-8.4
get sources
git clone git@github.com:flosskosova/alaveteli.git
cd alaveteli/
pull the latest code : git remote add original git://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli.git git pull orginal master git pull original develop
update the submodules : git submodule update --init
get rvm : git clone git@github.com:h4ck3rm1k3/rvm.git cd rvm/ ./install source /home/mdupont/.rvm/scripts/rvm
rvm install 1.9.2
setup : cd ../alaveteli/ gem install bundler bundle install
setup the database :
create the file alaveteli/config/database.yml from alaveteli/config/database.yml-example, change the password
edit /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/pg_hba.conf like http://www.germanxml.de/install/postgres/files/pg_hba.conf.html
restart the server
sudo su postgres
createuser mdupont (my user name,use yours)
createdb foi_development
install memcached
setup the app : create config/newrelic.yml from config/newrelic.yml-example create config/general.yml from config/general.yml-example
run : rake run : rake db:migrate