If you are looking for the GitHub repository for the data specification, head over to the popolo-spec repository.
Popolo's goal is to make it easier for civic developers to create government transparency, monitoring and engagement websites.
Popolo is a Ruby on Rails engine that provides additional functionality to a Ruby on Rails application, so that developers can focus on what's special about the governments they want to monitor, instead of re-implementing features commonly found in open government websites. The core Popolo engine provides basic models, controllers and views for the objects found in all open government websites – people, organizations and the relationships between the two. Other engines provide additional functionality.
In addition to being a Rails engine, Popolo is also a data specification.
Popolo uses Mongoid to connect to MongoDB, which requires Rails 3 and supports only MRI 1.9.3, 2.0.0 and HEAD, and JRuby 1.6.0+ in 1.9 mode.
First, create your Rails application:
rails new myapp --skip-active-record
Add the popolo gem to your Gemfile and bundle your dependencies:
gem 'popolo'
bundle
If you didn't run rails new with the --skip-active-record option, follow Mongoid's installation instructions. Otherwise:
rails generate mongoid:config
Finally, run the popolo generator and create the MongoDB indexes:
rails generate popolo
bundle exec rake db:mongoid:create_indexes
If you are using Popolo's default views, you can translate your contact detail types and organization classifications by creating a locale file, e.g. config/locales/en.yml:
en:
popolo:
organizations:
classifications:
party: Political party
contact_details:
types:
cell: Mobile number
This engine's main repository is on GitHub: http://github.com/opennorth/popolo-engine, where your contributions, forks, bug reports, feature requests, and feedback are greatly welcomed.
This gem is developed by Open North through a partnership with the Participatory Politics Foundation.
Copyright (c) 2012 Open North Inc., released under the MIT license