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Note that enabling this options means all encrypted messages and cookies generated the application become invalid, so we're adding a cookie rotator in order to keep sessions from expiring when upgrading the application, as recommended in the "Upgrading Ruby on Rails" guideline [1]. Since we haven't seen any Consul Democracy applications using encrypted messages and these messages become invalid with this change, we're also removing the pre-Rails 5.2 encryption to authenticate messages (AES-256-CBC) and switching to the default one since Rails 5.2 (AES-256-GCM). Since the configured encryption is used by the cookie rotator initializer (through the ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor.key_len method), at first I thought this might affect the cookie rotator, but it doesn't: upgrading works as expected, and existing sessions are still active. I'm adding a comment to remove the initializer once all cookies have been migrated. I've added "Rails 7.1" in the comment because we usually check for these comments when upgrading Rails, but we rarely check for them when after releasing new versions of Consul Democracy. [1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v7.0/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html#key-generator-digest-class-changing-to-use-sha256
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
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