Stadtratmonitor

Offical site: stadtratmonitor.leipzig.codefor.de

Usage / Features

The Stadtratmonitor Leipzig is a lightweight user interface for performing full text searches against paper contents issued to the city council of Leipzig. Note, this solution uses the data from Ratsinformationssystem Leipzig that also offers text search capabilities.

Sorting

Sort by date, paper was issued

Sort by relevance, e.g. how often the search keyword appears inside the title resp. the content of the paper

Filtering

By paper type

By originator

Staying up-to-date

General

Example using Firefox and RSSOWL

Click on the newsfeed icon in the address bar

Copy the URL from the address bar

Create a new Feed in RSSOWL and paste the just copied URL in the form

When updating the feed in RSSOWL (or any other RSS reader of your choice) time after time all new papers matching the search query criteria will appear.

Setup

There are two ways to run this app: using a local development setup, or using docker.

Local machine setup

Install Ruby, Bundler, Elasticsearch
Start Elasticsearch: elasticsearch
Setup Rails app: bundle && bundle exec rake db:setup
See “Importing data via Allris Scraper” below
Start Rails server: bundle exec rails s
Open localhost:3000

Using Container (Docker/Podman/…)

Install Yarn
Build the application: yarn && yarn build:css
Install Docker and Docker Compose
Start the application: docker-compose up
Initialize the database: docker exec stadtratmonitor-web sh -c "rake db:setup && rake import_papers && rake index:rebuild"
Open localhost:3000

Importing data via Allris Scraper (optional)

You can use our Allris Scraper to download the papers (resp. their links) from the OPARL API, this will produce an input.json file
Put this input.json to a public web server and set the URL to this file then in: app/controllers/import_controller.rb and lib/tasks/import_papers.rake

Running tests

Assuming docker and docker-compose is installed:

docker-compose run web bin/run-tests

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