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What does this project do?

Swiss Crowdfunder is a Crowdfunding platform (doh).

This repository is the open source community version of https://eep-crowdfunder.com.

Screenshot of a campaign

Why is this project useful?

Crowdfunding using established platforms can be very expensive. Usually there is a fee of 12-20% that has to be paid.

Swiss Crowdfunder is open source - so it can be used by anyone to start their own crowdfunding platform or campaign.

How do I get started?

Setup

1. Install RBenv

   macOS: brew install rbenv

   Official rbenv documentation: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.

2. Install Ruby version 2.4.1

   macOS: rbenv install 2.4.1

3. Install bundler

   gem install bundler

4. Clone the repository

5. Install dependencies

   Within your local checkout run bundle.

   For testing, install chromedriver > v59.

6. Configure Database

   Every host that runs this application can have a different database configuration. There is an example configuration that runs on sqlite, however that you can easily use by:

   cd config; ln -s database.yml.example database.yml; cd -

   Alternatively you can configure PostgreSQL, MySQL or others.

7. Migrate Database

   rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

Development

1. Start Application

   rails s

2. Run tests

   Automatically run tests while development

   guard

   Note for Emacs Users: When using enh-ruby-mode, this will also automatically color your status bar either green on success or red on error.

3. Live Reload

   Using the Gems guard-livereload and rack-livereload, development and saving of *.erb files will reload your browser. Developing *.scss files will also hot-load the respective CSS within the browser.

Configuration

When cloning/forking your own version of Swiss Crowdfunder, there are some places where you can add your own configuration:

1. Deployment

   Configuration is done through the config gem.

   • Copy the example configuration:

     cp config/settings.local.yml.example config/settings.local.yml

   • Configure the corresponding settings files for your different stages and hosts in the config/settings folder

   • config/deploy.rb

     • If you're using a fork of Swiss Crowdfunder, configure your :repo_url

     • Configure where to get your config/secrets.yml file

     • Configure Mattermost push notifications

       • If you want to use Mattermost push notifications, enable/disable them in config/settings.yml

       • If you use Mattermost, configure the webhook endpoint that should receive the messages in the config/settings.yml

   • config/deploy/*rb

2. config/secrets.yml

   • Either configure your own config/secrets.yml or set the SECRET_KEY_BASE environment variable in production

   • Configure your own servers for deployment

Deployment {#deployment-1}

1. Deploy

   We are using capistrano to deploy the newest version, roll back, compile assets and restart the app container.

   Deploy the newest version of master: cap production deploy

   Optionally you can locally set a local ENV variable REVISION to set a different branch than master for deployment.

Where can I get more help, if I need it?

We have a public Mattermost chat channel for the Swiss Crowdfunder: https://brandnewchat.ungleich.ch/ungleich/channels/eep-crowdfunder

Otherwise, please open a Github issue or get back to us via email ([email protected] or [email protected]).

Technical Documentation

ERD

There is an ERD defined in dot-syntax which is also available as .

The command to compile the SVG is: dot -Tsvg doc/erd.dot > doc/erd.svg

Security

For the initial version of the application, there is only one route that can create entities, none that can update or destroy any. Creation of the resource only works on a valid model and has only the potential side effect of generating more money for the campaign. Apart from a brute force attempt of creating bogus data, there's little security risk involved.

Also, there's no concept of a logged-in user, yet. Therefore, there is no global lock-down needed/possible. The cancancan and device gems are in place, though, for authorization and authentication as soon as supporters get the ability to create/modify/destroy any other data or have the ability to log in.

I18n

The application is fully localized. Views are localized through standard Rails I18n practices. User generated content is localized through Globalize.

Testing on CI

We are using CircleCI.