#Voter Registration App for the Deaf [travis]: http://travis-ci.org/democrats/voter-registration
PahVote’s goal is to empower Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans to become a part of our nation’s political processes.
We hope to achieve this by simplifying the process of becoming a voter, while also offering explanations in American Sign Language for concepts related to voting. interests. That's why we should be taking down roadblocks to voting. We believe in an America where everybody can make their voices heard.
That is why the Democratic National Committee created this open source application to provide more opportunities to register to vote in November! The Democratic National Committee created this open source application to provide more opportunities to register to vote in November! States have varying laws for voter registration, so this application is a one stop shop that contains all the voter registration information and voting checklists that you will need to vote. This information should not be altered. stop shop that contains all the voter registration information and voting checklists that you will need to vote. This information should not be altered.
You can help all eligible voters register to vote by using this software.
A Ruby on Rails Application that generates a [National Voter Registration A Ruby on Rails Application that generates a National Voter Registration Form PDF from a web form. Includes the guidelines for the National Voter Registration form in all states.
You can see a running version of the application at http://pahvote.herokuapp.com/
- Make sure the machine that you're using has Ruby 1.9.3 installed. We use rbenv for Ruby version management
- You'll need the RubyGem "bundler" installed.
git clone https://github.com/ewilliam/PahVote.git
cd PahVote
bundle install
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed #This will load all the State information
rails server
Open up your browser and go to http://localhost:3000
Deploying to Heroku
You can setup a Heroku account for free https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart
heroku create
heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter # Free addon used for devise emails
heroku config:set SECRET_TOKEN=$(bundle exec rake secret) # generate a unique secret token
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate
heroku run rake db:seed
We use RSpec for tests: bundle exec rake spec
We use rails_admin to manage the State Guidelines Go to "/admin" to login and manage the Guidelines
The default email: [email protected] The default password: p@ssw0rd
This application aims to support and is tested against the following Ruby implementations:
- Ruby 1.9.3
Check out [locales]: https://github.com/ewilliam/PahVote/tree/master/config/locales [issues]: https://github.com/ewilliam/PahVote/issues
- Fork the project.
- Create a topic branch. (
git checkout -b my_awesome_branch) - Implement your feature or bug fix. for ways that you can contribute
Documentation is available in the /doc directory in the root of the project.
Voter Registration is open source software; please see LICENSE in this
directory for licensing information.