Find the best way to volunteer and help refugees. Start by saying:
I'm in!
Organisers can create a need, set its location, time and the number and type of volunteers required.
Volunteers can see the needs in a list and join a need by clicking I'm in.
This way, volunteers applying for a need are registered (no volunteers will be turned down on the spot due to too many people showing up) and the organisers can keep track of those needs that still need more people.
The web app is getting its last fixes and is coming soon, along with an Android and iOS app at the following URL:
Initial version of the web and mobile app was built in two days as part of the Refugee Hack Vienna.
ENV Variables for configuration managment
Your system environmental variables are kept in your .env file. There is an example of all of the vars you need in .env.example. You can copy this file to .env when you start and edit the vars to how you like your system setup.
If you need environment specific (eg. test, development) .env files, look here
Install bundled gems
$ bundle install
Copy over the environment variables file
$ cp .env.example .env
Modify the DATABASE_URL in .env to reflect this:
DATABASE_URL='postgres://where2help:[email protected]:5432/where2help_development'
On Linux, create a database role, and database:
$ sudo -u postgres -i
% createuser where2help --pwprompt # just use where2help as password in the prompt
% createdb --owner where2help where2help_development
Setup the database
$ bundle exec rake db:setup
Migrate and populate the data
$ bundle exec rake db:migrate
$ bundle exec rake db:populate
Start up rails!
$ rails server
Add a test env file and change the DATABASE_URL to e.g. where2help_test
$ cp .env.sample .env.test
Setup the test db
$ bundle exec rake db:setup RAILS_ENV='test'
Run specs
$ rspec spec/