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A user-friendly web form with the minimal fields necessary that generates a PDF application and faxes it in to HSA.
- Install Ruby version 2.1.5
- Install system dependencies
pdftkandimagemagick(use Homebrew on OSX or apt-get on Debian/Ubuntu) - Install Redis with
brew install redis - Install Ruby dependencies with
bundle install
Set the environment variable REDISTOGO_URL to redis://localhost:6379 and start your local Redis server with redis-server
This app uses the Postgres database, so make sure that is running locally when you start your app up. (We recommend using Postgres.app on OSX.) Set the POSTGRES_USERNAME and POSTGRES_PASSWORD environment variables for your local Postgres database.
Then, create the databases for the app by running:
bundle exec rake db:create
You can now run the app by running:
rails s
and navigating in your browser to http://localhost:1234
For email capabilities we use Sendgrid, so for that set the following environment variables:
SENDGRID_USERNAMESENDGRID_PASSWORDEMAIL_ADDRESS_TO_SEND_TO
We also password protect the output application in a ZIP file and you can set the password with the ZIP_FILE_PASSWORD environment variable.
To run tests, run:
rake spec
If RACK_ENV is set to anything other than the default (development) then all unencrypted HTTP requests will be redirected to their HTTPS equivalents.
Put another way: when developing locally, you should be good to go. If you're deploying, you will need to configure SSL (works by default on Heroku if you're using their default XXX.herokuapp.com domain for your app).
heroku create YOURAPPNAMEGOESHERE
heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git
git push heroku master
heroku config:set PATH=/app/bin:/app/vendor/bundle/bin:/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.1.0/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/app/vendor/pdftk/bin
heroku config:set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/app/vendor/pdftk/libOur primary metrics are:
- % of submitted applications approved (quality)
(# of submitted apps shown for context)
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