Arooo - A Room Of One's Own

Welcome 🚀🚀🚀✨✨

This is a membership application app written by members of Double Union, a feminist hacker/makerspace for women in San Francisco.

This application has a lot of cool features, including:

Prospective members can apply for membership
Current members can vote and comment on applications
Current members can see a directory of members
Current members can pay dues via Stripe
Membership coordinators can manage member status

The application supports three levels of membership: members, key members, and voting members, where any member can see and comment on an application, but only voting members can vote. Membership coordinators can set whether the app is accepting applications, accept or reject individual applications, manage membership levels, and review dues status.

It is currently very Double Union specific, but we'd like to extract the Double Union things out of it, so that other feminist hacker/makerspaces can use it, too! We open sourced the app so that we can work with other hacker/makerspaces on that process. This app supports an application process that helps us maintain a safe space for our members, and we want this app to help other groups that have the same goal.

To check out a couple of screenshots, see our Arooo announcement post.

If you're interested in using Arooo for your org and want to get in touch, make an issue and we can chat. 💃

How to Contribute

We use GitHub issues for feature development and bug tracking, so take a look for things that you can work on, and comment with any questions you have.

If you're a Double Union member, you can chat with the maintainers in our #du-app chat channel. Ask us how you can help!

Development setup

If you are new to Rails, follow the RailsBridge Installfest instructions for getting your environment set up.

You must follow the Railsbridge Installfest instructions if you do not have ruby, bundler, or rails installed before continuing.

Fork the repo (click the Fork button above), and clone your fork to your local machine. Here's a GitHub tutorial about how to do so.
Run bundle install
- Bundle may fail on pg; run brew install postgresql if it does
- If you get FATAL: role “postgres” does not exist, run /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/<version>/bin/createuser -s postgres
Standard Rails app setup
- cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
- Optional: edit database.yml if you want to change advanced things
- rake db:create
- rake db:migrate
- rake db:test:prepare
Set up an application for OAuth: http://github.com/settings/applications/new
- Application name: Whatever you want
- Homepage URL: http://localhost:3000
- Authorization callback URL: http://localhost:3000/auth/github/callback
cp config/application.example.yml config/application.yml
Edit config/application.yml
- Set GITHUB_CLIENT_KEY and GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET to the Client ID and Client Secret from your Github application
- Don't forget to restart your Rails server so it can see your shiny new GitHub key & secret

Specs

Write specs! Yay! Especially for anything involving authorization walls.

Run rake db:test:prepare after you pull or make any changes to the app, generally.

Make sure bundle exec rspec passes before pushing your changes.

Rails console

Development: $ bundle exec rails console

Staging: $ heroku run rails console --remote staging

Production: $ heroku run rails console --remote production

Populate development database

To add a bunch of users to your dev database, you can use bundle exec rake populate:users. They will have random states.

User states

The current User state machine can be found in app/models/user.rb, but since it probably won't change much and it's the main moving piece of the application, here's a quick summary.

Valid states:

visitor: default state, no admin access, no application access
applicant: not yet a member, no admin access, can only view/edit/save/submit their application
member: access to member admin section, cannot vote
key_member: access to member admin section, cannot vote, has keys to the space
voting_member: access to member admin section, can vote, has keys to the space

Manually changing a user's state

First, open a Rails console in a terminal window, from the same directory as the app:

rails console

Now you can update any user:

> user = User.find_by_username('someusername')
> user.state # => "visitor"

> user.make_applicant!  # => true
> user.make_member!     # => true
> user.make_key_member! # => true
> user.make_voting_member! # => true
> user.make_applicant!  # => raises invalid state transition error

> user.update_attribute(:state, 'applicant') # bypasses normal checks & succeeds

If you need a user that has admin access:

> user = User.find_by_username('cool_user')
> user.update_attributes(is_admin: true)

Admins can accept/reject applications, update any member's status, see current member's dues, open and close applications, and manage new member setup.

Contributing

If you are new to GitHub, you can use this guide for help making a pull request.

Fork it
Get it running
Create your feature branch

git checkout -b my-new-feature

Write your code and specs
Commit your changes

git commit -am 'Add some feature'

Push to the branch

git push origin my-new-feature

Create a new Pull Request, linking to the GitHub issue url the Pull Request is fixing in the description
If you find bugs, have feature requests or questions, please file an issue.

Reviewing

This section only pertains if you have doubleunion/arooo write/push access.

Read through the GitHub issue that the Pull Request is fixing
Code review the Pull Request, commenting on any potential issues, improvements, or telling the person how awesome their code is
After the Pull Request is reviewed & fixed (if necessary) and the Travis CI build is passing, merge the Pull Request into master
Note: We like to have a short, linear history, so manually squash the PR into one commit, and rebase.
Delete the branch, and close the relevant issue if not referenced in the Pull Request already
Deploy! (see below)

Deploying

This section only pertains if you have Heroku & Deployment access.

Add Heroku remotes to your .git/config (type git remote --help for more instructions on how to configure git remote.)

Note: Only maintainers have heroku access and can deploy.

[remote "production"]
   url = git@heroku.com:du-arooo.git
   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/heroku/*
[remote "staging"]
   url = git@heroku.com:doubleunion-staging.git
   fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/heroku/*

Pull down the latest code from master

git checkout master
git pull --rebase origin master

If Travis CI tests are passing, push to the staging environment

git checkout master
git pull --rebase origin master
git push staging master

If needed, perform rake tasks or set ENV variable settings on staging
Test staging!

username: doubleunion
password: meritocracyisajoke

After confirming that the code works on staging, push it to production!

git checkout master
git pull --rebase origin master
git push production master

If needed, perform rake tasks or set ENV variable settings on production

A Room of One's Own

This app is named after a famous Virginia Woolf essay. You can learn more about it on Wikipedia!

Also, here is a puppy that is saying "arooo":

Security

If you find a security vulnerability with Arooo, please let us know at admin@doubleunion.org. Thank you!

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the LICENSE.txt file for the full license.

CarloMara / arooo