This is a web application used to manage the bidding process for 18F's micro-purchase threshold experiment. The platform will allow vendors to bid on open opportunities with 18F, track their bids, and learn of the winning bidder. So long as vendors are registered on SAM.gov and have GitHub accounts, they will be able to view open opportunities and bid on them.
With this application, a vendor will be able to view the full list of open micro-purchasing opportunities, access bid histories, and place bids on services requested by 18F. All bids will start under $3,500 and each project will specify the desired product and method of delivery.
This is a Ruby/Rails application using ActiveRecord and PostgreSQL. This repo contains the front end of a web app that integrates GitHub and SAM.gov. For more information on setting up the back end of the web app, see below.
The application is running Ruby 2.2.3 and Rails 4.2.4. Libraries are all available via gems.
bundleto get your gem dependencies installed- Talk to someone of the team to get the authentication secret and key
for the github account we are using for authentication. You will want
to put these variables in your environment:
export GITHUB_KEY=the-magic-key-given-youandexport GITHUB_SECRET=another-magic-key. - create your test and development databases:
bundle exec rake db:create:all db:migrate db:test:prepare - start the local server with
bundle exec rails s
bundle exec rspec
or
rake spec
This application is deployed on the cloud.gov PaaS which runs on Cloud Foundry. The following instructions are 18F-specific, but could easily be adapted for other Cloud Foundry instances or other web hosts.
Create the app (it's ok if the deploy fails):
$ cf push
Create the database service:
$ cf create-service rds shared-psql micropurchase
Set environment variables with cf set-env:
$ cf set-env micropurchase MPT_3500_GITHUB_KEY [the key]
$ cf set-env micropurchase MPT_3500_GITHUB_SECRET [the secret]
Set up the database:
$ cf-ssh
$~ bundle exec rake db:migrate
$~ bundle exec rake db:seed
Restage the app:
cf restage micropurchase
cf push
Pull requests merged into the master branch will be automatically deployed to https://micropurchase.18f.gov.
This project is in the worldwide public domain. As stated in CONTRIBUTING:
This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.
All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.