SciRate is an open source rating and commenting system for arXiv preprints. Papers are upvoted and discussed by the community, and we sometimes play host to more in depth peer review.
Bug reports and feature requests should be submitted as GitHub issues.
Development is best done locally using docker-compose:
docker-compose build
In order to run the app, you will need a local_settings.rb file, and a
config/database.yml file. You can copy these from the CI versions:
cp local_settings.rb.ci local_settings.rb
cp config/database.yml.ci config/database.yml
Then, spin up all the servers,
docker-compose up -d
From there, you can run the tests (note, you need to make sure elasticsearch
is fully up; it can take 10 seconds or so, you can verify with
curl localhost:9200/_cat/health, or docker-compose logs -f search
to see (the quite verbose) logs)):
docker-compose exec web rspec
After that, you can sync to arXiv.org and then play around with the system locally:
docker-compose exec web rake arxiv:feed_import
docker-compose exec web rake arxiv:oai_update
and visit http://localhost:3000 and you will be looking at SciRate!
There is a fairly comprehensive series of unit and integration tests in
spec. Running docker-compose exec web rspec, if the entire docker-compose
system is up, will run them.
- Maintained by Kunal Marwaha
- Previously maintained by Noon van der Silk
- Original website by Dave Bacon
- Bill Rosgen
- Aram Harrow
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