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We've been ignoring what the Bullet gem reports for at least 6 years (maybe more), but we were still updating the gem and maintaining the code in `config/environments/` (which caused conflicts every time we run `rails app:update` to upgrade to a new Rails version). Maintaining it isn't a huge effort, but it's infinitely bigger than the benefits we get from it, which are zero. Adding `includes` everywhere we query for records would be a huge maintenance effort and would make the code less readable, so I don't think it's worth it. We might do it occasionally if we detect a performance bottleneck. We could also use a gem to automatically avoid the N+1 queries problem, like Goldiloader [1], ArLazyPreload [2] or JitPreload [3]. Benchmarks show that the performance improvements obtained by using these gems is about less than 10% (it depends a lot on the page being loaded, though), which IMHO doesn't justify adding yet another gem that patches ActiveRecord and that could be incompatible with other gems doing so. There are a couple of open pull requests (at the time of writing, they've been open for about two years) in the Rails repository [4][5] to automatically avoid N+1 queries as well. For now, we'll hope something similar is integrated in Rails itself in the future. [1] https://github.com/salsify/goldiloader [2] https://github.com/DmitryTsepelev/ar_lazy_preload [3] https://github.com/clio/jit_preloader/ [4] Pull request 45231 in https://github.com/rails/rails/ [5] Pull request 45413 in https://github.com/rails/rails/
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
Citizen Participation and Open Government Application
This is the opensource code repository of the eParticipation website CONSUL DEMOCRACY, originally developed for the Madrid City government eParticipation website, and currently maintained by the open source software community in collaboration with the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation.
Documentation
Check the ongoing documentation to learn more about how to start your own CONSUL DEMOCRACY fork, install it, customize it and learn to use it as an administrator/maintainer.
CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation and project website
You can access the main website of the project at http://consuldemocracy.org where you can find information about the use of the platform, the CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation, the global community of users and local partners, news, and ways to get more support or get in touch.
Configuration for development and test environments
NOTE: For more detailed instructions check the docs
Prerequisites: install git, Ruby 3.2.3, CMake, pkg-config, shared-mime-info, Node.js 18.18.2 and PostgreSQL (>=9.5).
git clone https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy.git
cd consuldemocracy
bin/setup
bin/rake db:dev_seed
Run the app locally:
bin/rails s
You can run the tests with:
bin/rspec
Note: running the whole test suite on your machine might take more than an hour, so it's strongly recommended that you setup a Continuous Integration system in order to run them using parallel jobs every time you open or modify a pull request (if you use GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, this is already configured in .github/workflows/tests.yml and .gitlab-ci.yml) and only run tests related to your current task while developing on your machine. When you configure the application for the first time, it's recommended that you run at least one test in spec/models/ and one test in spec/system/ to check your machine is properly configured to run the tests.
You can use the default admin user from the seeds file:
user: admin@consul.dev pass: 12345678
But for some actions like voting, you will need a verified user, the seeds file also includes one:
user: verified@consul.dev pass: 12345678
Configuration for production environments
See installer
Current state
Development started on 2015 July 15th. Code was deployed to production on 2015 september 7th to decide.madrid.es. Since then new features are added often. You can take a look at the current features at the project's website and future features at the Roadmap and open issues list.
License
Code published under AFFERO GPL v3 (see LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt)
Contributions
See CONTRIBUTING.md