Accountability API

http://api.accountableto.us/v1

We can mourn the state of affairs, or we can use the elections as a wake-up call. This API seeks to provide a generalized and unbiased political promise tracker. The idea is that we can take the things that politicians claim they'll do and keep a record of it. Any time they accomplish a goal or break a promise, we can track it -- with sources. When it comes time to vote again, this tool could be used to gauge how effective a politician was at accomplishing their goals. The judgement as to why isn't in the domain of this tool. That, as always, is up to the voter.

Contributing

Prerequisites

• Docker

Building

First time:

1. docker-compose up --build to build the application and data containers
2. docker -exec -it {container ID} bash to connect to the application container
3. goose up to run any outstanding migrations

The container uses gin to auto-reload the server when a change is detected. So if you make a change, you don't need to rebuild.

To bring up the container after it has already been built, use docker-compose up (without --build).

Deploying

This application is deployed using dokku. Pushes to the master branch will deploy a new image to production.