Crowdvoice v2

This is only the style for the crowdvoice site.

The core is powered by crowd_engine.

For wordnet install go to:

https://gist.github.com/3098837

Crowdvoice Server Installation

Technical Server Information

Technical information about server configuration and distribution, the application app is under Rails 3.0.9

Branches and server mapping

Note: all servers are in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

SERVER NAME         |    IP         | BRANCH     | ENVIRONMENT
crowdvoice          | 173.203.58.89 | production | production
crowdvoice.staging  | 50.57.231.31  | cloneapp   | staging

Dependencies

• Nginx
• Unicorn
• Mysql
• Monit
• Imagemagic
• Redis
• Openssh
• Iptables
• Apparmor

Background jobs

• migrate_database : Fired when a user sign up a new installation and confirms email
• create_bucket : It creates an S3 bucket dedicated to the new server
• load_dummy_data : It insert a dummy voice to show how it will see
• destroy_server : It erases the database and the bucket of a custom installation

Validations

• validate uniqueness of server name
• validate use of number,letters and underscores only
• validates whitelist of words (mysql, production, etc)
• A user can have many installations

Usage

Bucket naming

• The format is "crowdvoice-installation-" + server name

Database naming

• The format is "crowdvoice_installation_" + server name

The Admin can edit the following variables:

• Site name
• Logo
• Tagline
• Social Links (Twitter, Facebook)
• Title Intro Bar
• About Page (iframe of a doc)

Database and Bucket switching

ConnectionAdapter.connect_to(request.subdomain) : It reads the subdomain and contrusct with it the bucket and DB name

Setting the domain on mailer

set_mailer_host : It set the domain to the default settings of Actionmailer on each request

Get the name of the installation

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_get("@config")[:database].gsub('crowdvoice_installation_', '')

Restore the crowdvoice default connection

ConnectionAdapter.restore_connection