Whitehall is deployed in two modes:
- 'admin' for publishers to create and manage content (e.g. http://whitehall-admin.dev.gov.uk/government/admin/news/new)
- 'frontend' for rendering content to the public that has yet to be migrated to using Publishing API (see live examples that follow)
- Governments: https://www.gov.uk/api/governments
- World Locations: https://www.gov.uk/api/world-locations
- CSV Preview pages: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/560889/LEMPRD_201610180000-CSV-GOVUK.csv/preview
- Current ministers list: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers
- Help and services around the world: https://www.gov.uk/world
- World Embassies list: https://www.gov.uk/world/embassies
- Worldwide Organisation pages: https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-paris
Use GOV.UK Docker to run any commands that follow.
Traditionally, the two sides of Whitehall are available on different domains in development, which reflect their counterparts in production:
While this usually results in different routing behaviour, in development all routes can be accessed from either domain, although the redirect behaviour may differ.
- Govspeak A variation of Markdown used throughout whitehall as the general publishing format
This is a Ruby on Rails app, and should follow our Rails app conventions.
You can use the GOV.UK Docker environment to run the application and its tests with all the necessary dependencies. Follow the usage instructions to get started.
# run all the test suites
bundle exec rake
Javascript unit tests can also be run separately:
# run all the JavaScript tests
bundle exec rake jasmine
See the docs/ directory.