Municipal

Consulting city-dwellers about legislation near them.

Created for the city of Mesa, AZ. Please feel free to post in the "Issues" section with any questions or comments.

Prerequisites

This application requires Ruby. If you don't have it, download and install here.
This application requires Rails.
This application also requires Postgres SQL. If you don't have it, download and install here.
This application also requires PostGIS.

Installation instructions

Clone the app to your machine:

git clone
cd MuniciPal

Install the dependencies:

bundle install

Create the database:

bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake app:deploy

If you want to update or change these specific shapefiles, they exist in the lib/asset folder in the application.

Run your application

rails server

Troubleshooting

Make sure the postgis extension is properly loaded.

SELECT POSTGIS_VERSION(); # succeeds if PostGIS objects are present.

You did it!

Now you can access your application at http://0.0.0.0:3000

Notes on loading your own Boundary Data:

The council_districts:load rake task loads a "Councils.shp" file in the Mesa/assets directory.

The EPSG for this shapefile must be 4326.

Notes on deploying to heroku:

Deploy automatically:

Or deploy manually:

heroku create
heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git
heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:standard-0
heroku pg:info
git push heroku master
heroku run bundle exec rake app:deploy

mockra/MuniciPal