50 Percent wants to document how much women* are misrepresented as speakers at conferences, on panels, in talkshows and many other public events. At each event we count male and female speakers and publish the percentage of each - with your help!

It is a Rails application maintained by the rubymonstas.

See also: Speakerinnen and the blog

Time to open your Terminal! 👩‍💻

1. Clone the project git clone git@github.com:rubymonsters/fiftypercent.git
2. Switch to the project folder cd fiftypercent
3. Create your own database file cp config/database_example.yml config/database.yml
4. Install Postgres for the database following their guide for your operating system
   • If necessary, set up a new user as described in this guide:

   sudo su - postgres # log in with the postgres user
   psql # enter the Postgres database
   CREATE ROLE yourusername; # create a new user
   ALTER ROLE yourusername WITH LOGIN CREATEDB; # give necessary rights to database user
   

5. Make sure you have the correct Ruby version installed. We recommend Ruby Version Manager (RVM) (you can also use rbenv, but setup is more difficult). Also best uninstall any Ruby installation from your operating system as it might conflict. Run these commands to install RVM and switch to Ruby 2.4.2 which we use:

   gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB
   \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
   rvm install "ruby-2.4.2"
   

6. Install bundler gem install bundler
7. Install dependencies using bundle install
8. Create the database

   rake db:create
   rake db:migrate
   

9. Start the server with rails s
10. Open your browser and go to http://0.0.0.0:3000

🎉 Now you are set up to contribute code! :)

• Once you made changes, you can run the tests with rake test.
• The code can be deployed to production using cap production deploy. If you want to deploy a specific branch, use cap production deploy BRANCH=branchname