Check the Children’s Barred List

A service that allows employers and agencies to check whether someone appears on the Children’s Barred List.

Setup

Dependencies

This project depends on:

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• NodeJS
• Yarn
• Postgres
• Redis

Install dependencies using your preferred method, using asdf or rbenv or nvm. Example with asdf:

# The first time
brew install asdf # Mac-specific
asdf plugin add ruby
asdf plugin add nodejs
asdf plugin add yarn
asdf plugin add postgres

# To install (or update, following a change to .tool-versions)
asdf install

Redis

You’ll need to install Redis. The way to do this is different on each operating system, but on macOS you can try the following:

brew install redis
brew services start redis

If installing Redis manually, you'll need to start it in a separate terminal:

redis-server

Application

Setup the project (re-run after Gemfile or package.json updates, automatically restarts any running Rails server):

bin/setup

Run the application on http://localhost:3000:

bin/dev

BigQuery

Edit .env.development.local and add a BigQuery key if you want to use BigQuery locally.

See DfE Analytics for information on how to get a key.

You also need to set BIGQUERY_DISABLE to false as it defaults to true in the development environment.

Read more about setting up BigQuery.

Linting

To run the linters:

bin/lint

Testing

To run the tests:

bin/test

Intellisense

solargraph is bundled as part of the development dependencies. You need to set it up for your editor, and then run this command to index your local bundle (re-run if/when we install new dependencies and you want completion):

bin/bundle exec yard gems

You’ll also need to configure your editor’s solargraph plugin to useBundler:

+  "solargraph.useBundler": true,

How the application works

We keep track of architecture decisions in Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

We use rladr to generate the boilerplate for new records:

bin/bundle exec rladr new title