blrhc / debate

A platform for digital debate and voting

Debate

The goal of this system is to codify rational discourse and allow polling on issues.

Users should be able to proxy their vote either to an individual or organization.

Identity will be verified via postal mail sent to their name and address as registered with the election commission.

Participation

Development information is spread out over a few services:

• Development Listserv
• Github Repo
• Futurist Party Slack (e-mail me for an invite)

If you're interested in paid development, estimate and rate hours then e-mail me since I never look at that site.

Installation

Locally

1. sudo apt-get install git
2. git clone https://github.com/TheFuturistParty/debate.git
3. curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash
4. source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
5. cd debate
6. rvm install ruby-2.1.2
7. bundle install
8. optional edit config/secrets.yml and change the admin credentials
9. rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
10. rails s
11. chrome http://localhost:3000

Heroku

• git clone https://github.com/TheFuturistParty/debate.git
• cd debate
• heroku create app dbate
• heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql
• `heroku config:add DOMAIN_NAME='dbate.herokuapp.com'
• git push heroku master
• heroku config:add ADMIN_NAME='admin'
• heroku config:add ADMIN_EMAIL='[e-mail]' ADMIN_PASSWORD='secret'
• heroku run rake db:migrate db:seed
• rake figaro:heroku

If you change anything, it has to be precompiled before it is sent to Heroku.

• RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile
• git add -A
• git push heroku master