This is a rails app built to make it easy for organizations with many users keep track of what they themselves are doing and what things their coworkers are up to.
Note: These instructions assume you have experience deploying conventional rails apps.
Install dependencies, or use my vagrant box.
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev imagemagic
If you want to run the unit tests you need to install PhantomJS directly from this link: http://phantomjs.org/download.html
Setup the app as with most rails apps
$ cp config/application.yml.example config/application.yml
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake user:populate_users
Now you can boot up the server
$ rails s
You'll want to notice the configuration file located at config/application.yml, an admin will have been generated with the supplied credentials, and also the secret_key_base will need to be recalculated via rake secret and insertered for the app to work.
To prime up the database with a basic admin user, run rake db:seed. To populate the app for EFF usage, login as the admin user (see application.yml for credentials) and navigate to /admin and click the button for Populate Users, this will scrape https://www.eff.org/about/staff for user names, emails, and pictures and plug them into the database. It takes a while...
Reminders and report_on_aftermath notifications are sent over email via rake mail:send_reminder and rake mail:send_report_on_aftermath respectively. It's clever to have these commands executed via cron. An example crontab follows:
0 12 * * 5 bash -l -c "cd /www/fab.int.eff.org/ && rake mail:send_reminder
0 12 * * 1 bash -l -c "cd /www/fab.int.eff.org/ && rake mail:send_reminder
0 15 * * 1 bash -l -c "cd /www/fab.int.eff.org/ && rake mail:send_reminder
15 15 * * 1 bash -l -c "cd /www/fab.int.eff.org/ && rake mail:send_last_minute_reminder
0 16 * * 1 bash -l -c "cd /www/fab.int.eff.org/ && rake mail:send_report_on_aftermath
Drop in more images into app/assets/images/banner_pool to have them show up in that beautiful top banner. If one image doesn't seem to work, it probably has a + sign or possibly something even more adventurous like a question mark, so try taking that out.
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