National Data Catalog

Front-end web app.

Requirements

Other the standard Rails stack, the biggest requirement is the National Data Catalog API, which is a Sinatra app that uses MongoDB as it's data store. Please navigate to the datacatalog-api repository to get set up on that end.

    sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
    sudo gem install authlogic authlogic-oid ruby-openid nokogiri faker httparty
    sudo gem install rspec rspec-rails thoughtbot-shoulda rr
    sudo gem install notahat-machinist webrat cucumber bmabey-database_cleaner

Setup

1. Configure config/api.yml to point to your API instance.
2. Configure a config/database.yml to point to your relational database of choice.

Testing Stack

We're taking testing Very Seriously, practicing outside-in development. Our stack:

• Cucumber for stories (features + scenarios)
• Webrat for acceptance tests
• RSpec for unit and functional tests
• Shoulda for macros
• RR for mocks and stubs
• Machinist for factories
• NullDB to make unit tests go superfast
• SeleniumRC for Javascript interaction tests
• BlueRidge for Javascript unit tests