If your business produces waste or emissions that pollute you may require an environmental permit. However you may also be able to get an exemption if your business activities are considered to be easily controlled and only create low risks of pollution.
The waste exemptions service is used by organisations to apply for an exemption.
This service is currently beta public and has been developed in accordance with the Digital by Default service standard, putting user needs first and delivered iteratively.
This project is the back office application which internal staff use to register and manage exemptions via the assisted digital route. It uses the waste-exemptions-engine.
You'll need Ruby 3.2.2 installed plus the Bundler gem.
First clone the repository and then drop into your new local repo
git clone https://github.com/defra/waste-exemptions-back-office.git && cd waste-exemptions-back-officeNext download and install the dependencies
bundle installA Vagrant instance has been created allowing easy setup of the waste exemptions service. It includes installing all applications, databases and dependencies. This is located within GitLab (speak to the Ruby team).
Download the Vagrant project and create the VM using the instructions in its README.
However, if you intend to work with the app locally (as opposed to on the Vagrant instance) and just use the box for dependencies, you'll need to:
- Log in into the Vagrant instance
- Using
ps ax, identify the pid of the running back office app - Kill it using
kill [pid id] - Exit the vagrant instance
Once you've created a .env file (see below) you should be ready to work with and run the project locally.
Any configuration is expected to be driven by environment variables when the service is run in production as per 12 factor app.
However when running locally in development mode or in test it makes use of the Dotenv gem. This is a shim that will load values stored in a .env file into the environment which the service will then pick up as though they were there all along.
Check out .env.example for details of what you need in your .env file, and what environment variables you'll need in production.
If you are running the waste exemptions Vagrant VM, you have nothing to do! All databases are already created and the appropriate ports opened for access from the host to the VM.
If you intend to run it standalone, you'll need to have PostgreSQL installed and can then use bundle exec rake db:create:all to create the databases for the develop and test environments.
Simply start the app using bundle exec rails s. If you are in an environment with other Rails apps running you might find the default port of 3000 is in use and so get an error.
If that's the case use bundle exec rails s -p 8000 swapping 8000 for whatever port you want to use.
The test suite is written in RSpec.
To run all the tests, use bundle exec rspec or bundle exec rake.
If you have an idea you'd like to contribute please log an issue.
All contributions should be submitted via a pull request.
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