Business Support Finder

Faceted search application for finding business support and finance options.

Screenshots

Live examples

• gov.uk/business-finance-support-finder
• gov.uk/business-finance-support-finder/search

Technical documentation

This is a Ruby on Rails application that is a frontend to business-support-api

It's a precursor to finder-frontend application, and should be merged in to it at some point. Currently it uses some filtering behaviour that finder-frontend does not support;

• location/postcode filtering
• a mix of AND / OR facet filters

The schemes themselves (eg gov.uk/bridge-to-employment-northern-ireland) are served by frontend and managed in publisher.

Dependencies

• business-support-api: Provides scheme filtering/results.
• content-store: Provides content and metadata.
• publishing-api: this app sends data to the content-store.
• static: Provides shared GOV.UK assets and templates.
• rummager: this app indexes its pages for search via Rummager.

Running the application

On GOV.UK development machines:

$ bowl businesssupportfinder

Otherwise:

$ ./startup.sh

The app will run at localhost:3024 - or businesssupportfinder.dev.gov.uk on GOV.UK development machines.

Running the test suite

$ bundle exec rake

Publishing to GOV.UK

• bundle exec rake publishing_api:publish will send the business support finder pages to the publishing-api.

Search indexing

• bundle exec rake rummager:index will send the data to Rummager for indexing in search.

Licence

MIT License