live server hosted at: https://better.boon.gl

*** Use at your own risk!!! There are likely to be vulnerabilities in this app!!! ***

Pre-requisites

I recommend using rvm to manage your ruby versions: https://rvm.io/

# install ruby:
rvm install 1.8.7-p374

# set ruby version:
rvm use 1.8.7 --default

# set the rubygems version:
rvm rubygems 1.8.25

# install postgres:
brew install postgres

# Imagemagick is also a dependency:
brew install imagemagick
# see here for errors installing rmagick: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13967303/372479

Getting started

First fork the repo using the link above, then:

# clone your copy:
git clone git@github.com:<your username>/better.git
cd better/

# Add this copy as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/mockdeep/better.git

# now install gems:
bundle install

# set up database config:
mv config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

# set up database:
rake db:create:all && rake db:schema:load

# seed data into the database:
rake db:seed

# set up the test database:
rake db:test:prepare

# and run the tests:
rake spec

# if all passes, then you should be good to go. Please open an issue if you
# have any problems. You can boot up your server on localhost with:
script/server

Production

You'll need to set up the following in order to run on production. If you're deploying to Heroku you can push environment variables using heroku config:add MY_VAR=whatevs. Locally you can put them in a local_env.rb file like ENV['MY_VAR'] = 'my secret key'.

• A honeybadger.io API key: BETTER_HONEYBADGER_API_KEY=<your key here>
• S3 access keys:
  • S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your AWS S3 access key id>
  • S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your AWS S3 secret access key
• Sendgrid credentials:
  • SENDGRID_DOMAIN=<the domain of your app>
  • SENDGRID_PASSWORD=<your sendgrid password>
  • SENDGRID_USERNAME=<your sendgrid username>

Dev notes

We're looking to get spec and heckle coverage up to 100%. You will find methods throughout the code base tagged with spec_me, cover_me, and heckle_me. These tags represent three levels of test quality in order of increasing difficulty. Search through the codebase for places you can help like git grep spec_me.

When the following conditions are met the tag can be removed:

spec_me

This is pretty basic. All we need is a unit test hitting the method. For the following method:

class MyClass
  def some_method
    if awesome?
      'awesome!'
    else
      'not awesome :('
    end
  end
end

You might write a spec that looks like:

describe MyClass, '#some_method' do
  it 'returns "awesome!"' do
    MyClass.new.some_method.should == 'awesome!'
  end
end

cover_me

For code coverage you would need to expand the above test to include both branches:

describe MyClass, '#some_method' do
  context 'when awesome' do
    it 'returns "awesome!"' do
      MyClass.new.some_method.should == 'awesome!'
    end
  end

  context 'when not awesome' do
    it 'returns "not awesome :("' do
      awesome = false
      MyClass.new.some_method.should == 'not awesome :('
    end
  end
end

You can check the coverage of tests by running rake spec:rcov. It generates a coverage directory. Open coverage/index.html in your browser to view the output.

heckle_me

Heckle coverage is the hardest. Not only do you need cover the code, you need to check for various permutations within it. Heckle is a gem that performs mutations on your code and runs your tests against the mutated code. If your tests don't fail then your tests still need some work. Heckle lists out the changes it made that did not cause your tests to fail.

You can run heckle like this:

spec spec/models/role/name_translation_key_spec.rb --heckle Role#name_translation_key

Translating

You can find language specific translation groups at: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/better/

Known issues

Attachments doesn't work in dev environment

License and legalese

This codebase is based largely on the project Bettermeans, which was itself based on Redmine. Both Bettermeans and Redmine are open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). Better is also GPLv2.

All Redmine code is Copyright (C) 2006-2011 Jean-Philippe Lang All Bettermeans code is Copyright (C) Shereef Bishay All Better code is Copyright (C) Robert Fletcher