initial

Free Open-Source participatory democracy, citizen participation and open government for cities and organizations

This is the open-source repository for initial, based on Decidim.

Deploying the app

The app is deployed with Capistrano using Figaro for ENV configuration. In order to deploy it, these are the required steps:

1. Make sure you have Ruby installed with the correct version. Version is specified in the .ruby-version file in this repo. In order to test the Ruby version, use ruby -v. Using a version manager is recommended, please check RVM or RBenv for Ruby-specific managers, or asdf for a more general version manager.

2. Ensure you have all dependencies installed. Run bundle install. If it gives you an error saying Bundler is missing, install it first with gem install bundler and then run bundle install.

3. Ensure you have the required files to deploy the app. They are not included in this repo because they include sensitive data, so you'll need to ask around. Needed files are:

   1. Capfile
   2. config/deploy.rb
   3. config/deploy/production.rb

4. Deploy the app with bundle exec cap production deploy

Setting up the application

You will need to do some steps before having the app working properly once you've deployed it:

1. Open a Rails console in the server: bundle exec rails console
2. Create a System Admin user:

user = Decidim::System::Admin.new(email: <email>, password: <password>, password_confirmation: <password>)
user.save!

3. Visit <your app url>/system and login with your system admin credentials
4. Create a new organization. Check the locales you want to use for that organization, and select a default locale.
5. Set the correct default host for the organization, otherwise the app will not work properly. Note that you need to include any subdomain you might be using.
6. Fill the rest of the form and submit it.

You're good to go!