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The buttons to create polls associated with a budget were too prominent, appearing on the table as if they were as used as the link to manage investments. Most CONSUL installations don't use physical booths, and would probably wonder what that button is about. We're moving it to a more discrete place, at the bottom of the budget page. This way we can also split the action in two: on budgets not having a poll, we display the button in a not-so-accessible position (at the bottom of the page), since this button will only be used once per budget at most. Once the poll has been created, it means this feature is going to be used, so we display a link to manage ballots more prominently at the top of the page. If the budget has finished the final voting stage without creating a poll, we don't show either the link or the button because this feature can no longer be used. We're also adding some texts indicating what this feature is about, since it's probably one of the least understood features in CONSUL (probably because the interface is very confusing... but that's a different story). Since now from the budget page we can access every feature related to the budget, we can remove the "preview" action from the budgets index table, since this feature isn't that useful for budgets once they're published. Now the budgets table doesn't take as much space as it used to, although it's still too wide to be handled properly on devices with a small screen.
CONSUL
Citizen Participation and Open Government Application
This is the opensource code repository of the eParticipation website CONSUL, originally developed for the Madrid City government eParticipation website
Documentation
Check the ongoing documentation at https://docs.consulproject.org to learn more about how to start your own CONSUL fork, install it, customize it and learn to use it from an administrator/maintainer perspective.
CONSUL Project main website
You can access the main website of the project at http://consulproject.org where you can find documentation about the use of the platform, videos, and links to the community space.
Configuration for development and test environments
NOTE: For more detailed instructions check the docs
Prerequisites: install git, Ruby 2.7.4, CMake, pkg-config, shared-mime-info, Node.js and PostgreSQL (>=9.5).
git clone https://github.com/consul/consul.git
cd consul
bundle install
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
bin/rake db:create
bin/rake db:migrate
bin/rake db:dev_seed
RAILS_ENV=test rake db:setup
Run the app locally:
bin/rails s
Run the tests with:
bin/rspec
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