What is Global Forest Watch?

Global Forest Watch (GFW) is a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests.

This repository contains the GFW web app.

Developing

The GFW web app rides on Ruby on Rails.

OS X Mavericks Setup

First make sure you have Xcode and Command Line Tools installed.

Next install Homebrew, the OS X package manager:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

We recommend managing your Ruby installation through rbenv. It's just an easy way to run multiple Ruby versions for different applications:

$ brew update
$ brew upgrade rbenv ruby-build

Next clone the gfw repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/Vizzuality/gfw.git

Using rbenv, install and set Ruby 2.1.1 in the main app directory:

$ cd gfw
$ rbenv install 2.1.1
$ rbenv local 2.1.1

Now let's install Ruby on Rails:

$ sudo gem install rails

Aaaaand now use Bundler, a rubygem manager, to install all the gem depenencies for the app:

$ bundle install

Almost there! Final steps are to update your .env file:

RACK_ENV=development
GFW_API_HOST=gfw-apis.appspot.com
BLOG_HOST=http://blog.globalforestwatch.org
AWS_HOST=
TERMS_COOKIE=
S3_BUCKET_NAME=
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=

Last step. For real. Start the app server and access it at http://0.0.0.0:5000:

$ foreman start

Oh, and you should probably launch the gfw-api dev_apperver.py before you try to visit the site on your local machine.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Vizzuality

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.