Affordable Child Care Search Portal for Resource and Referral Networks

What Is This?

This is a search portal for affordable child care resource and referral networks.

Where can I see it in action?

Here: http://childrenscouncil.org/childcaresearch/

Thank you!

Thank you for the generous support of San Francisco Human Services Agency (SF HSA) and the Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE). Thanks also to funders including S H Cowell Foundation. This software was initially developed by Children's Council of San Francisco (http://childrenscouncil.org) and Exygy (http://exygy.com).

License

This affordable child care search portal for resource and referral networks is released under the MIT license: www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Tech

This software is built in Ruby on Rails and Angular. It integrates well with other web tech. For example, it is currently embedded into a WordPress website and could easily be embedded into other platforms.

Setup

• Install Ruby 2.5.0
• Install Node >=8.10.0
• Install Bundler: gem install bundler
• Install the pg gem: gem install pg -v 0.21.0 -- --with-pg-config=[path to your pg_config]
• Run bundle install
• Make a copy of database.yml.sample, save it in the same directory, and name it database.yml
• Run rake db:create
• Install the PostgreSQL citext extension in your local development and test databases. From your psql prompt, run:
  • \c childrens_council_development
  • CREATE EXTENSION citext;
  • \c childrens_council_test
  • CREATE EXTENSION citext;
• Run rake db:migrate
• Run npm install
• Run ./node_modules/.bin/bower install
• Run rails s to start your server

Contributing, Questions, and Overview

We hope to have more info here soon about contributing to the project. In the meantime, please address any questions to [email protected] and we'll send your email along to the right folks.