The participatory democracy framework.
Democracy never felt so real.
Decidim is a participatory democracy framework written on Ruby on Rails originally developed for the Barcelona City government online and offline participation website. Installing this libraries you'll get a generator and gems to help you develop web applications like the ones found on example applications or like our demo application.
All members of the Decidim community agree with Decidim Social Contract or Code of Democratic Guarantees.
Project management [See on Waffle.io]
- Get started with Decidim
- Contribute to the project
- Decidim components
- How to test Decidim engines
- Create & browse development app
- Technical tradeoffs
We've set up a guide on how to install, set up and upgrade Decidim. See the Getting started guide.
Decidim is already translated on multiple languages (English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Italian, Finnish, Dutch, French and Ukrainian). You can help us at Crowdin, the translation service, reviewing this translations or proposing a new language to add to the platform.
In order to develop on decidim, you'll need:
- PostgreSQL 9.4+
- Ruby 2.4.1
- NodeJS 8.x.x
- ImageMagick
- PhantomJS
The easiest way to work on decidim is to clone decidim's repository and install its dependencies
$ git clone [email protected]:decidim/decidim.git
$ cd decidim
$ gem install decidim
$ bundle install
$ npm installYou have several rake tasks available for you:
bundle exec rake development_app: Creates a development app which you can use to run an application with the gems in your path.bundle exec rake decidim:generate_test_app: Generates a dummy application to be used for testing.bundle exec rake test_all: Runs the tests of every engine using the dummy application
After you create a development app (bundle exec rake development_app):
cd development_appbundle exec rails s- Go to 'http://localhost:3000'
Optionally, you can log in as: [email protected] | decidim123456
Also, if you want to verify yourself against the default authorization handler use a document number ended with "X".
After you create a development app (bundle exec rake development_app):
cd development_appbundle exec rails s- Go to 'http://localhost:3000/admin'
- Login data: [email protected] | decidim123456
| Library | Description |
|---|---|
| Admin | This library adds an administration dashboard so users can manage their organization and all other entities. |
| API | This library exposes a GraphQL API to programatically interact with the Decidim platform via HTTP |
| Assemblies | Permanent participatory spaces. Currently in beta as an optional feature, can be included by explicitly adding decidim-assemblies to the Gemfile. |
| Budgets | Adds a participatory budgets system to any participatory space. |
| Comments | The Comments module adds the ability to include comments to any resource which can be commentable by users. |
| Core | The basics of Decidim: users, organizations, etc. This is the only required engine to run Decidim, all the others are optional. |
| Participatory Processes | The main concept of a Decidim installation: participatory processes. |
| Dev | This gem aids the local development of Decidim's features. |
| Meeting | The Meeting module adds meeting to any participatory space. It adds a CRUD engine to the admin and public view scoped inside the participatory space. |
| Pages | The Pages module adds static page capabilities to any participatory space. It basically provides an interface to include arbitrary HTML content to any step. |
| Proposals | The Proposals module adds one of the main features of Decidim: allows users to contribute to a participatory space by creating proposals. |
| Results | Adds a results section to any participatory space so users can follow along the state of the accepted proposals. |
| Surveys | Adds the ability for admins to create arbitrary surveys. |
| System | Multitenant Admin to manage multiple organizations in a single installation |
This is not your typical Ruby on Rails Vanilla App. We've tried that using Consul but we've found some problems on reutilization, adaptation, modularization and configuration. You can read more about that on "Propuesta de Cambios de Arquitectura de Consul".
Decidim doesn't support turbolinks so it isn't included on our generated apps and it's removed for existing Rails applications which install the Decidim engine.
The main reason for this is we are injecting some scripts into the body for some individual pages and Turbolinks loads the scripts in parallel. For some libraries like leaflet it's very inconvenient because its plugins extend an existing global object.
The support of Turbolinks was dropped in d8c7d9f. If you're interested in bringing turbolinks back, further discussion is welcome.
If you plan to release your application you'll need to publish it using the same license: GPL Affero 3. We recommend doing that on Github before publishing, you can read more on "Being Open Source From Day One is Especially Important for Government Projects". If you have any trouble doing that you can contact us on Gitter.
Since Decidim is a ruby gem, you can check out the dependent repositories to see how many applications are on the wild or tests that other developers have made. Here's a partial list with some of the projects that have used Decidim:
- Demo
- Decidim Barcelona - View code
- L'H ON Participa - View code
- Decidim Terrassa - View code
- Decidim Sabadell - View code
- Decidim Gavà - View code
- Decidim Sant Cugat - View code
- Vilanova Participa - View code
- Erabaki Pamplona - View code
- Decidim Mataró - View code
- Commission Nationale du Débat Public (France)