Having to wait for a whole page refresh after updating each setting was painful when modifying several settings. Even though the navigation is updated immediately to reflect which sections have been enabled/disabled, there's one gotcha. Changing the "SDG" setting will not update the user menu (which contains a link to SDG content) nor the "SDG Configuration" tab; refreshing the page will be necessary to check these changes. The same happens with the map and remote census tabs. So in these cases we're making an exception and sending the form. We might find a better solution in the future. For this reason, we aren't using the `switch` ARIA role. Some users might not expect a switch control to refresh the page, just like they usually don't expect checkboxes to refresh the page. Furthermore, screen reader support for the `switch` role seems to be inconsistent. For instance, NVDA with Chrome announces the control as a checkbox instead of a switch. Note AJAX is only used for feature settings. Other settings are still updated with regular HTTP requests. Since we're now using AJAX requests, we have to make sure to add an expectation in the homepage tests in order to make sure the request has finished before starting a new one.
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
