edcontext

This project contains three pieces:

• A webapp for visualizing and understanding MCIEA survey data
• Tasks for processing and indexing raw survey data
• Experimental work to conduct survey samples via text message

This is a Rails project, deployed on Heroku.

Local development

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:seed

At this point you can run the app and login. There won't be any data yet though; keep reading!

Loading Data

Postgres is the primary data store for the webapp, but the definitions of the questions and measures are stored in .json files and raw survey data is stored in .csv files. These are collected offline, and then processed by the rake tasks to load that data into Postgres for use by the webapp.

There are several different kinds of data needed:

• measures.json
• questions.json
• student_responses.csv
• teacher_responses.csv

You can load these into the database and index them for use in the webapp by running rake tasks.

You can start by generating fake data:

$ bundle exec rake data:generate

Loading all the real response data take a while, so you can start by loading only a sample of the data for one particular school with:

$ bundle exec rake data:load_sample

This loads all the data:

$ bundle exec rake data:load

Demo deploy

Get the code and make a new repo without any history.

$ mkdir edcos-demo
$ git clone https://github.com/jaredcosulich/edcontext.git
$ cd edcontext
# git co feature/ecos-demo
$ rm -rf .git # remove past git history, which has secrets and response data
$ git init
$ git co -b master
$ git commit -m "Initial demo commit"

Make a new Heroku app and deploy:

1. Create a new Heroku app
2. Add Postgres
3. Deploy
4. Run heroku run rake db:migrate db:seed data:generate
5. Run heroku run rails console and add a demo user (eg, User.create!(email: 'demo@demo.edcontext.org', password: '123456'))
6. Try it out!

Path to open source

• Personal phone numbers in code - these are removed (seed.rb)
• API keys in code - these are removed (attempts_controller.rb)
• Create generator task for demo site
• Remove .csv responses
• target_group in questions aren't set

Data

Loading attempts took a while. I factored data rake task out into Ruby class to call methods more directly, and then added whitelist option for importing only data for a particular school. I used the Vinson school as my test case.

Making site navigable

• loading data - uncomment and split to bulk
• creating new admin user manually
• moving #verify_super_admin to application_controller, adding it for /admin pages
• welcome/index.html.haml to remove commented code and require login
• Login goes to /user, add in link to home page there
• Moved seed code into pilot_parent_test.rake, removed individual names and phone numbers
• Added recipients and recipient_lists links to school/show.html.haml
• Added import link to recipients page
• Added index action and view for school schedules
• Edit questions without school_id
• Deleted API keys and numbers in attempts_controller.rb

Other Issues

• can't get categories pages to show questions
• looks like computation is inverted for some questions like http://localhost:3000/schools/vinson-owen-elementary-school/categories/student-emotional-safety
• back link not working editing schools and districts
• superadmin is done by user id
• no schools for default user?
• endpoints for school/categories, school/questions
• attempts route and controller commented out