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Decidim::Geo

Have you ever wondered to centralize all the participation in a map? Well, we do and that is the purpose of Decidim GEO. Participation on the map, means:

• Overview participation: Be able to consult what happens where.
• Participate: Be able to pin points, select zones, etc. while participating

This project is its early stage, and has it is quiet ambicious, we open CO-FUNDING and setup a public Roadmap here: https://octreegva.notion.site/Roadmap-Decidim-GEO-f191fcb9e220401f8135514a7bd41aab.

If you are curious on how it started, we've made some slide to present the project.

How it works?

Postgis can load Shapefiles that can represents anything: neighbourghoods, cities, states, trees, public spaces. We use this module to map a shape to an application zone, to be able to geo-references all the participatory processes of the platform. This way we can offer better consultation experience, and open new perspective for participation.

Installation

This gem supports decidim version 0.26.x and 0.27.x.

Read the needed dependancies for rgeo gem. If you have libgeos-dev, be sure you have a postgis database with postgres > 14.0.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "decidim-decidim_geo"

Update your database adapter to postgis adapter (already installed as dependancy of this gem):

# config/database.yml
default: &default
  adapter: postgis

Update your DATABASE_URL environment with postgis://:

DATABASE_URL="postgis://myuser:mypass@localhost/somedatabase"

And then execute:

bundle
bundle exec rails decidim_geo:install:migrations
bundle exec rails db:migrate

Testing

bundle exec rake test_app

Local development

First, you need to run an empty database with a decidim dev container which runs nothing.

docker-compose down -v --remove-orphans
docker-compose up -d

Once created, you access the decidim container

# Get the id of the decidim dev container
docker ps --format {{.ID}} --filter=label=org.label-schema.name=decidim
# f16bd5314386
docker exec -it f16bd5314386 bash

You are now in bash, run manually docker-entrypoint.

# Will check your environment and do migrations if needed
docker-entrypoint

You are now ready to use your container in the way you want for development:

• Run a rails server: bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0
• Have live-reload on your assets: bin/webpack-dev-server
• Execute tasks, like bundle exec rails g migration AddSomeColumn
• etc. bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 # rails server bin/webpack-dev-server etc.

To stop everything, uses:

• docker-compose down to stop the containers
• docker-compose down -v to stop the containers and remove all previously saved data.

Debugging

To debug something on the container:

1. Ensure decidim-app is running

   docker ps --all
   #   CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                           COMMAND                  CREATED        STATUS        PORTS                                            NAMES
   #   f16bd5314386   decidim-geo-development-app     "sleep infinity"   13 hours ago   Up 13 hours   0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:3035->3035/tcp   decidim-app <-------- THIS ONE
   #   b56adf6404d8   decidim-geo-development-app     "bin/webpack-dev-ser…"   54 seconds ago   Up 46 seconds   0.0.0.0:3035->3035/tcp   decidim-webpacker                                       decidim-installer
   #   bc1e912c3d8a   postgis/postgis:14-3.3-alpine   "docker-entrypoint.s…"   13 hours ago   Up 13 hours   0.0.0.0:5432->5432/tcp                           decidim-module-geo-pg-1
   

2. Run docker exec -it decidim-app bash

3. Run

   • tail -f $ROOT/log/development.log to access logs
   • bundle exec rails restart to restart rails server AND keeps webpacker running
   • cd $ROOT to access the development_app
   • cd $ROOT/../decidim_module_geo to access the module directory

FAQ

I can't see logs on the decidim-app? decidim-app runs here in development webpacker-dev-server AND a puma server, on the same container. Thus, we just run both, and only one will be displayed on STDOUT. To see puma log: docker exec decidim-app tail -f /home/app/decidim/log/development.log

It takes for ever to pull the image? Try to pull from docker hub before doing your install script. docker pull hfroger/decidim:0.26.8-dev can help.

Why must I access to 127.0.0.1 and not localhost? webpack-dev-server run a websocket server on port 3535, and the rails server needs to connect to it. localhost won't make the trick, and you need to use a "real" ip, like 127.0.0.1. More info

Contributing

We are not yet ready for contributions, but we are working on a goood workflow

Why it's not on MetaDecidim?

We think Decidim is already over complicated to install and setup. This module uses PosGis extensions on a postgres database, that can be hard to install. We block the proposal to metadecidim until these points are solved:

• We have stable release.
• We have feedbacks from participants that it is actually usefull.
• We have feedbacks from Decidim's admins that this is actually improving participation.
• Decidim run primarly on docker, with an updated documentation on installation. (We, at Octree is working on it for a while)

License

This engine is distributed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE