Decidim

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

This is Codeandomexico's own vanilla Decidim deployment.

Local development

Requisites

• ruby 3.0.2
• bundler 2.3.20
• node 16
• yarn

Installation

Follow these steps:

• git clone https://github.com/okfn-brasil/minutas.git
• cd minutas
• either create a postgres user and a database owned by this user or just a user able to create databases and use bin/rails db:create to create it.
• set the DATABASE_USERNAME, DATABASE_PASSWORD and DATABASE_NAME environment variables.
• run bin/rails db:migrate to run the migrations.
• (optional) run bin/rails db:seed to seed the database. This will create an organization and some users. Use [email protected] and password decidim123456789 to log in.
• Install frontend dependencies with yarn install
• start the server with bin/rails server

and refer to the docs for more information.

Management

You can create a system admin account with:

bin/rails decidim_system:create_admin

When an organization is created and an admin invited in development look for the email in the console and maybe use something like https://www.webatic.com/quoted-printable-convertor to decode it and follow de invite link.

Deployment

An image is created and deployed every time you push a tag. Use the following format: git tag X.Y.Z and git push --tags. Example: git tag 1.6.0

Background tasks

Run a job queue:

bin/rake jobs:work

Adding gems

• modify Gemfile with the new dependencies
• run bundle install
• run the gem's specific install steps