A community for mental health experiences

1. Goals
2. Getting Involved
3. Getting Started
4. Testing Accounts
5. Committing Work
6. License

if me is a community for mental health experiences that encourages people to share their personal stories with trusted allies. Trusted allies are the people we interact with on a daily basis, including friends, family members, co-workers, teachers, and mental health workers.

Dealing with mental health is what makes us human. But for a lot of us, it's a struggle to be open about it.

Not everyone is a counsellor or therapist. The people who we interact with everyday shape our emotions and behaviour. Getting them involved in mental health treatment is the key to recovery.

The goal is to create a platform that:

• Allows users to write about their experiences (Triggers) similar to a blog and get feedback and support from their allies
• Create personalized categories and moods to organize Triggers and Strategies
• Develop and share Strategies to solve problems and maintain healthy goals
• Keep track of medications and create alerts for them
• Create support groups whether online or offline and keep track of sessions

Current goals:

• Improve test coverage
• Create introductory user survey based on user's current mood to personalize writing prompts in Triggers
• General clean up and tweaking of UI and UX, including language throughout the app
• More helpful and visual documentation to help familiarize contributors with the project
• Usability testing

Fork the repository, pick up an issue, or create an issue for a feature you would like to see. If would like to be added as a collaborator, email [email protected].

Check out our Slack page if you have any questions, ideas, or concerns!

As contributors and maintainers of this project, we pledge to respect all people who contribute through reporting issues, posting feature requests, updating documentation, submitting pull requests or patches, and other activities.

We are committed to making participation in this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, or religion.

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include the use of sexual language or imagery, derogatory comments or personal attacks, trolling, public or private harassment, insults, or other unprofessional conduct.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct. Project maintainers who do not follow the Code of Conduct may be removed from the project team.

This code of conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community.

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by opening an issue or contacting one or more of the project maintainers.

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.1.0, available at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/1/0/

The steps below should be straightforward for Linux and OSX users. Windows users please refer to this guide for tips on setup.

http://railsinstaller.org/en

Check out http://www.postgresql.org/download/

Install via Homebrew

brew install postgresql

#####Linux

Bulid from the source using yum, apt-get, etc.

Install via graphical installer

After cloning the app on your local machine, in your terminal run the following commands in the /ifme directory

bundle install

If Ruby Bundle Symbol not found: _SSLv2_client_method (LoadError) is encountered, try running the following commands.

rvm get stable

rvm reinstall ruby

rvm gemset pristine

On Windows, you may encounter an error like SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed. If this happens, download the CURL CA bundle and set the environment variable SSL_CERT_FILE to point to it.

bin/rake db:create db:migrate

bin/rake db:setup

rails s

rails db

Note that ifme_test is used when running unit tests

They have been created in seeds.rb. Feel free to modify seeds.rb to help to your development needs! You can also test with Google accounts.

Email: [email protected]
Password: password99

Email: [email protected]
Password: password99

Email: [email protected]
Password: password99

Always write unit tests for the changes you've made! If you see any missing unit tests, write them!

rspec

If you receive an error for having 'FATAL: database "ifme_test" does not exist', run the following.

bin/rake db:create db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test

Make a fork of the repository, create a new branch for every feature you are working on!

In the spirit of open communication and community, we highly recommend that new contributors write blurb on themselves, what mental health means to them, and why they are part of if me.

This also helps people to familiarize themselves with the code base! The live contributors page can be found here: http://www.if-me.org/contributors.

Find the source code for that page and submit a pull request with your story!

The source code is licensed under the Apache License. For more information see http://www.apache.org/licenses/ or LICENSE.txt.