Synopsis
This is the codebase behind EBWiki.org, a site dedicated to documenting instances where people of color are killed by Law Enforcement Officers during routine interactions.
Example
- Current Site: Production
- Staging Site: (requires developer access)
Motivation
After the Walter Scott video was released showing the vast discrepancy between the official report of the encounter and the video, a group of Black technologists had the idea of a site where information on each encounter could be stored and recorded. This would help show both the frequency with which this occurs as well as the way bias affects the proceedings.
Contributing
All developers are welcome to contribute to the codebase. We ask that, if possible, you address issues that are labelled high priority first, followed by those marked as quick fix. All contributors are expected to adhere to our code of conduct, which can be found here. Thank you for your contribution - details on our stack can be found below.
Installation
System Requirements
- Ruby 2.4.1 or higher
- Rails 4.2.9 or higher
- Postgres 9.4 or higher
- Redis (currently for the Split gem for A/B testing ).
- Sendgrid (for outbound email).
- SSL using Let's Encrypt and Substrakt at End Bias Certificate Manager.
For setting up a local development environment here
Testing
We use RSpec to test the business logic In addition, we use Travis as a Continuous Integration (CI) Server and Code Climate to monitor code quality. We also use bullet to detect an N+1 query and raise an exception and fail the build, whether local or in CI.
Services
EBWiki uses the following 3rd party services:
- Trello for business project management
- Monitis for system monitoring
- Heroku for hosting
- AWS S3 for file uploads
Contributors
Thank you to all of our contributors. Contributors to the codebase can be found here.
License
EBWiki is using the Apache 2.0 License.