maebeale/doublehranch

Double H Ranch Project 2017

About this Project

"Orchard" is a one-stop social networking platform for alumni counselors, staff, campers, and volunteers to engage with camp -- and each other!

Setup

• Install Ruby 2.4.1 (chruby, rbenv, rvm, etc)
• bin/setup initially, then bin/update thereafter

What This App Does

• Admins import user data for alumni staff, counselors, campers, & volunteers into the system
• Admins trigger an email for individuals to: verify their info and account settings, create a login, and adjust their privacy settings
• Users are taken to a hub that aggregates social media data and links to:
  • events calendar
  • donor system
  • volunteer system
  • photo sharing / tagging /commenting
  • chat
  • facebook feed
  • twitter feed
• Admin dashboard provides user data (number of invites sent, active users, etc)

Architecture

The app is built using Rails 5 with Postgres and AWS S3 for storing data.

Heroku

Paperclip requires an additional buildpack for imagemagick

heroku buildpacks:add --index 1 https://github.com/ello/heroku-buildpack-imagemagick -a doublehranch

Adding users via rails console

$ rails console
r> u = User.new(last_name: "Last", first_name: "First", email: "[email protected]", salutation: "Mrs.", password: "asdflkjasd;flkjasf;")
r> u.save
# Pretend to have received the confirmation email
r> u.confirm

If you need to do this on the production app

heroku run -a doublehranch -- rails console
# Follow instructions above

About Double H Ranch

Double H Ranch is a nonprofit that provides specialized programs and year-round support for children and their families dealing with life-threatening illnesses. All programs are free of charge and capture the magic of the Adirondacks of upstate New York, and is one of the most uplifting places you could every visit.

Double H has limited engagement with former volunteers, campers, and summer staff, so would like to a system through which it can engage and build community with people who are no longer at camp. We'll build a greenfield product for them that will interface with a few of their existing systems (Facebook, Google calendar, Raiser's Edge), link to others, and provide a centralized location with some special features to allow everyone to interact.

Visit the Double H Homepage for more information.