Webapp to manage the workflow Parliamentary Questions
Work should be based off of, and PRed to, the main branch. We use the GitHub PR approval process so once your PR is ready you'll need to have one person approve it, and the CI tests passing, before it can be merged.
Clone this repository then cd into the new directory
$ git clone [email protected]:ministryofjustice/parliamentary-questions.git
$ cd parliamentary-questions
If you don't have rbenv already installed, install it as follows:
$ brew install rbenv ruby-build
$ rbenv init
Follow the instructions printed out from the rbenv init command and update your ~/.bash_profile or equivalent file accordingly, then start a new terminal and navigate to the repo directory.
Use rbenv to install the latest version of ruby as defined in .ruby-version (make sure you are in the repo path):
$ rbenv install
Postgresql
$ brew install postgresql
Use the following commands to install gems and javascript packages then create the database
$ bin/setup
Mock data can be automatically imported by running the following rake task (it will make use of a mock API server running on localhost:8888 so make sure this port is free):
''' $ bundle exec rake pqa:import_dummy_data
Finally, a rake task is also provided to load PQ&A XML data into the system.
$ bundle exec rake pqa:import_from_xml[path/to/question_file.xml]
#### Running locally:
To just run the web server without any background jobs (usually sufficient):
$ bin/rails server
The site will be accessible at http://localhost:3000.
#### Running the tests
In order to run the tests, you can use:
```sh
bundle exec rake
This will run specs and rubocop linting. Or you can run them individually, with rake rubocop and rake spec.
It's done using devise and devise invitable:
For development you can create users with a rake task.
# default user
rake user:create
# admin user
rake user:create_admin
# specific email, password, name
rake "user:create_admin[[email protected], 123456789, admin]"
Emails are sent using the GOVUK Notify service.
Please refer to the readmein the mailers folder for details of how to get an account and obtain an API key.
Any exceptions raised in any deployed environment will be sent to Sentry.
This is an up to date list of the environment variables used by the app. Refer to the provisioning code for the actual values expected to be set on each specific environment.
For local development, the only mandatory variables are PQ_REST_API_HOST, DEVISE_SENDER and TEST_USER_PASS. PQ_REST_API_HOST should
be set to http://localhost:8888, as it is the default hostname/port used
by the mock implementation
of Parliament's Question and Answer API. TEST_USER_PASS can be set to any value. DEVISE_SENDER can be set to [email protected].
Instructions on setting up the GOVUK_NOTIFY_API_KEY can be found in the mailer readme.
| Variable Name | Required for local development | Description |
|---|---|---|
PQ_REST_API_HOST |
y | Hostname of the Parlamentary Question and Answers API |
PQ_REST_API_USERNAME |
n | Username |
PQ_REST_API_PASSWORD |
n | Password |
DEVISE_SECRET |
n | Secret Devise Token |
DEVISE_SENDER |
y | Email address used for signup/signin/password related notifications |
SENDING_HOST |
n | Host for URLs in emails |
CA_CERT |
n | Absolute Path of the system's SSL certificates dir (e.g. /etc/ssl/certs) |
ASSET_HOST |
n | Host where Rails' assets pipeline will deploy the assets |
TEST_USER |
n | The current application version tag |
TEST_USER_PASS |
y | The password for the test users created by rake db:staging:sync and smoke tests |
GOVUK_NOTIFY_API_KEY |
y | A key required to send emails via GovUK Notify |
You can add the env variables required for local development to your bash_profile using the format:
export [NAME_OF_VARIABLE]=[VALUE-OF-VARIABLE]
for example:
export GOVUK_NOTIFY_API_KEY=a-super-great-key