alphagov/need-o-tron

Welcome to Need-o-Tron

For an overview of the need-o-tron visit Richard Pope's introductory blog post

Getting set up

Need-o-Tron is a Rails 3.2 application. It is built with ruby 1.9.2 and is only guaranteed to work with that and 1.9.3, though it should be compatible with ruby 2.0

To get up and running you'll need mysql, elasticsearch, ruby and bundler installed. On a mac we recommend using homebrew to install the former two.

Once those requirements are satisfied, getting the app up and running should just be a case of running:

bundle install
rake db:setup
rails server

Authentication

Need-o-tron designed to work as part of a suite of applications, authenticating against an OAuth provider such as Sign-on-o-tron

It does that via the GDS-SSO gem. See that project's README for configuration details. It's an OAuth2 provider, and you could alternatively use any other OAuth2 provider.

If you don't want to authenticate against a separate app there's also a basic strategy for development use that will simply use the first user in your database. To set that up you'll want something like:

% rails console
u = User.new(:name => 'First User', :email => '[email protected]', :uid => 1)
u.permissions = ["signin", "admin"]
u.save

exit

need-o-tron's Issues

Combine Directgov links and existing services

I think we should combine Directgov links and "existing services" into a generic list of links to sources for why we should be doing a need. It makes more sense, especially since the needs covered by GOV.UK today span wider than just the content areas of Directgov.

require: false in Gemfile caused a syntax error using Ruby 1.9.3

I had to comment those lines out, which I hope won't break anything.

(It's entirely possible that PEBKAC)

Gemspec refers to the private repo url for Daemonette

Fetching [email protected]:alphagov/daemonette.git
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Git error: command git clone '[email protected]:alphagov/daemonette.git' "/home/harry/bundles/ruby/1.8/cache/bundler/git/daemonette-967f273478fd6c8ac4e61962d81264970e855a26" --bare --no-hardlinks in directory /home/harry/Code/need-o-tron has failed.

I switched to the read-only version and it checked out fine.

Solr schema

Hi, trying to get this to run locally to evaluate, but running into problems with solr. Are the config/schema available anywhere?

Thanks

'rake db:setup' fails

I get the following error:

Mysql2::Error: Table 'needotron_development.evidence_types' doesn't exist: SHOW FULL FIELDS FROM evidence_types

after running the rake command. It looks like the evidence_types table is never created.