This is a platform to collect information and reviews about whether businesses are accommodating of customers with special needs.
Here is a scenario where this sort of information might be useful: Imagine you are a parent of a child who is on the autism spectrum and that you are out of town visiting relatives. Your child has cut his/her own hair and you need to find a barber to give your child a haircut. Searching Yelp for good salons or barber shops won't give you sufficient information. You want to find a barber who will be accommodating of your child's special needs.
This is where RevTilt comes in.
As a parent you can easily find businesses that are autism-friendly. RevTilt is a platform to share and find reviews specific to your family member's special needs. These reviews are provided along side existing mainstream reviews on sites like Yelp.
For now this project is devoted entirely to autism, but our goal is to accommodate other special needs as well.
If you find a bug or something that could improve the user experience, please file an issue on this github project, so our contributors/maintainers can get started fixing them. :-)
Even if you plan on filing a patch for the issue yourself it'd be great if you could still file an issue so that we don't have people duplicating work unnecessarily.
- Fork this project
- Make a feature branch
git checkout -b feature - Make your changes and commit them to your feature branch
- Submit a pull request
RevTilt (then called Puzzled) won first place at the AT&T Hackathon on Hacking Autism in April 2013.
So far there have been stories about RevTilt written by the LA Times, CNN, and SFGate. Click here for a complete list.
You will need to create a .env file in the RevTilt directory. You should have the following variables defined.
SECRET_TOKEN=*SOME HEX STRING*
admin_user=cyrus
admin_password=p455w0rd
SMTP_DEV_EMAIL=*where all development emails should be sent*
SMTP_ADDRESS=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_DOMAIN=gmail.com
SMTP_USERNAME=*sending gmail address*
SMTP_PASSWORD=*sending gmail password*
BING_MAPS_API_KEY=*key from the bingmpasportal*
add these variables to Heroku with heroku config:add.
- Bing Maps API: https://www.bingmapsportal.com/application/
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create # first time only
$ rake db:migrate # whenever you update the database schema
$ rake db:test:prepare
$ foreman start
$ bundle exec guard # to run spork and tests