Catarse

The first crowdfunding platform from Brazil

An open-source crowdfunding platform for creative projects

Welcome to Catarse's source code repository. Our goal with opening the source code is to stimulate the creation of a community of developers around a high-quality crowdfunding platform.

You can see the software in action in http://catarse.me. The official repo is https://github.com/catarse/catarse

Getting started

Dependencies

To run this project you need to have:

• Ruby 2.2.3

• PostgreSQL

  • OSX - Postgres.app
  • Linux - $ sudo apt-get install postgresql
  • Windows - PostgreSQL for Windows

  IMPORTANT: Make sure you have postgresql-contrib (Aditional Modules) installed on your system.

Setup the project

• Clone the project

    $ git clone https://github.com/catarse/catarse.git
  

• Enter project folder

    $ cd catarse
  

• Create the database.yml

    $ cp config/database.sample.yml config/database.yml
  

  You must do this to configure your local database! Add your database username and password (unless you don't have any).

• Install the gems

    $ bundle install
  

• Install the front-end dependencies

    $ bower install
  

  Requires bower, which requires Node.js and its package manager, npm. Follow the instructions on the bower.io website.

• Create and seed the database

    $ rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
  

If everything goes OK, you can now run the project!

Running the project

$ rails server

Open http://localhost:3000

Translations

We hope to support a lot of languages in the future, so we are willing to accept pull requests with translations to other languages.

Thanks a lot to Daniel Walmsley, from http://purpose.com, for starting the internationalization and beginning the English translation.

Payment gateways

Currently, we support MoIP, PayPal and WePay through our payment engines. Payment engines are extensions to Catarse that implement a specific payment gateway logic. The current working engines are:

• MoIP
• PayPal
• WePay

If you have created a different payment engine to Catarse, please contact us so we can link your engine here. If you want to create a payment engine, please join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/catarse-dev

How to contribute with code

Before contributing, take a look at our Roadmap (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/427075) and discuss your plans in our mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/catarse-dev).

Our Pivotal is concerned with user visible features using user stories. But we do have some features not visible to users that are planned such as:

• Turn Catarse into a Rails Engine with customizable views.
• Make an installer script to guide users through initial Catarse configuration.

After that, just fork the project, change what you want, and send us a pull request.

Best practices (or how to get your pull request accepted faster)

• Follow this style guide: https://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide
• Create one acceptance tests for each scenario of the feature you are trying to implement.
• Create model and controller tests to keep 100% of code coverage in the new parts you are writing.
• Feel free to add specs to committed code that lacks coverage ;)
• Let our tests serve as a style guide: we try to use implicit spec subjects and lazy evaluation wherever we can.

Credits

Author: Daniel Weinmann

Contributors: You know who you are ;) The commit history can help, but the list was getting bigger and pointless to keep in the README.

License

Copyright (c) 2011 Softa

Licensed under the MIT license (see MIT-LICENSE file)