Your Priorities is a web based platform that enables groups of people to define their democratic ideas and together discover which are the most important ideas to implement by their instances. People can add new ideas, add arguments for and against ideas, indicate if they support or oppose an idea, create a personal list of ideas and discuss all ideas. The end results are lists of top ideas in many categories as well as the best arguments for and against each idea. This service enables people to make up their minds about most issues in a short time.

Your Priorities is being used on the https://www.yrpri.org/ eDemocracy service and the Better Reykjavik website in Iceland amongst other places.

Short new instructions

Development on Ubuntu

1. Install rvm the Ruby version manager

sudo apt-get install curl
\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

2. Go into the application and install all gems

bundle install

3. Install postgres

sudo apt-get install postgresql

4. Then start the psql shell

sudo su postgres
psql

5. When in psql create a user and the Your Priorities dev database

create user puser password 'xxxxxxxx'
create database yrpri_dev with encoding 'utf8';
grant all privileges on database yrpri_dev to puser;
postgres=#

6. Then exit the postgres shell and copy and edit the config/database.yml.dist file

cd config
cp database.yml.dist database.yml

7. Then edit the database.yml file for your puser password

8. When ready create the database tables and seed the database:

rake db:schema:load
rake db:seed

9. Start the server

rails s

10. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/

Production Deployment on Heroku

Your Priorities is now setup to be a Heroku app, using S3 and CloudFront for deployment.

Here are the parameters that are used in Heroku config.

Heroku parameters you need to setup yourself:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:            ----------------------

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:        ----------------------

CF_ASSET_HOST:                ----------------------.cloudfront.net

FACEBOOKER2_API_KEY:          ----------------------

FACEBOOKER2_APP_ID:           ----------------------

FOG_DIRECTORY:                ----------------------

S3_BUCKET:                    ----------------------

S3_KEY:                       ----------------------

S3_SECRET:                    ----------------------

YRPRI_ALL_DOMAIN: 1

Below config examples set automatically by the respected services, you can see from this list what heroku additions are needed to run the app:

ADEPT_SCALE_URL:              ----------------------

DATABASE_URL:                 ----------------------

FLYING_SPHINX_API_KEY:        ----------------------

HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_WHITE_URL:  ----------------------

MEMCACHIER_USERNAME:          ----------------------

PGBACKUPS_URL:                ----------------------

REDISTOGO_URL:                ----------------------

SENDGRID_USERNAME:            ----------------------

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:            ----------------------

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID:            ----------------------

Installation (Old instructions below)

Ruby

First you'll want to install your own Ruby (if you haven't already). There are a few ways to do that. The rest of this guide assumes you use bash and RVM.

First you install RVM (Ruby Version Manager):

Then reload your environment:

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Find out what dependencies are needed for Ruby (MRI) and install them:

$ rvm requirements

Install and use Ruby 1.9.3

$ rvm install 1.9.3
$ rvm use 1.9.3 --default

Install Bundler

$ gem install bundler

Install thinking-sphinx, memcached, and imagemagick

$ sudo aptitude install sphinxsearch memcached imagemagick

You will also need to have an smtpd running on the machine.

Set up your-priorities

$ git clone https://github.com/rbjarnason/your-priorities.git
$ cd your-priorities

Install all the dependencies

$ bundle install

Modify database.yml and fill in your MySQL database credentials

$ $EDITOR config/database.yml

Then create and seed the database

bundle exec rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load tr8n:import_db db:seed --trace

Recreate tr8n from scratch

rake tr8n:init tr8n:import_and_setup_iso_3166

Run your-priorities

Finally, start the rails server:

$ rails server

Testing your-priorities

First set up the test database and start the test server

$ RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load tr8n:init tr8n:import_and_setup_iso_3166
$ bundle exec rails server -e test

Then run the tests

# run all tests
$ bundle exec rake test

# run one test
$ bundle exec ruby -Ilib:test test/integration/navigation.rb

Deploying your-priorities

Install RVM, Ruby, Bundler, and thinking-sphinx on your server(s) as described above.

Set up Phusion Passenger as described by http://www.modrails.com/install.html.

Edit config/deploy.rb to fit your server configuration.

Setup the deployment environment:

$ bundle exec cap deploy:setup

Then copy config/database.yml, config/newrelic.yml, and config/facebooker.yml to sites/your-priorities/shared/ on the app server(s)

Then deploy the application:

$ bundle exec cap deploy

Your Priorities is a merge between:

NationBuilder by Jim Gilliam http://www.jimgilliam.com/ and Open Direct Democracy by Róbert Viðar Bjarnason and Gunnar Grimsson http://github.com/rbjarnason/open-direct-democracy