Welcome to PDredesign

PDredesign is a digital toolkit for school districts dedicated to improving professional development for educators. The toolkit, including collaborative assessments and inventories, is freely available on PDredesign.org and can be used by any school district to transform existing professional development systems to better support teachers in the classroom. The PDredesign tools were co-designed by district leaders through a collaborative process facilitated by Alvarez & Marsal. Mobility Labs is bringing the PDredesign Toolkit online to enable any district to leverage the tools. PDredesign was developed with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

pdredesign-server

pdredesign-server is the API for the PDredesign website. It also consumes the pdredesign-client gem. Which is an Angular client.

Getting Started

• Run bundle install to install dependencies
• Run rake db:create to create database.
• Import an existing database run psql "pdr_dev" < db/data/pdr_dev.sql
• Run rake db:migrate to migrate the database
• Start rails with rails server
• Start redis with redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf (OS X, brew install redis)
• Start sidekiq with the sidekiq command

Foreman

Alternatively, foreman can be used to start everything by running foreman start. Note that redis server needs to start independently since its more a platform dependency

Deploy

• run bundle install to ensure the latest pdr_client is being refrenced
• run RAILS_ENV=production S3_KEY=i S3_SECRET=i bundle exec rake assets:precompile ROLLBAR_ENV=production ROLLBAR_TOKEN=xxxxx to precompile assets
• Commit newly created assets to the repo and push to heroku
• push to heroku git push heroku.

Specs

Specs are implemented with RSpec(3.x) and the expect syntax. Specs can be run via spring rspec to run the test suite.

• run rake db:drop RAILS_ENV=test to remove any test db
• run rake db:create RAILS_ENV=test to remove any test db
• run rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=test
• run bundle exec rspec

This should be a one time database setup for the testing env

Rake Tasks

The rake db:create_default_toolkit - task creates the default toolkits. The rake db:create_default_key_questions - task creates the default key questions.

Contributing

We encourage you to contribute to the development of PDredesign. Please look at our Contributing guide for guidelines on how to proceed.

Code Status

License

PDredesign is released under the MIT License.