The Project

Building a platform that makes it easier for individuals to apply for employment in the federal government, while enabling agencies to quickly identify superior candidates.

What is HIRE-EZ?

Hire-EZ is a demonstration application (adapted from RFP-EZ) that facilitates collaborative review of applications for employment. In this case, the demo is about collecting and reviewing applications for fellowship positions.

Setting up your development environment

1. Grab the code

git clone git://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/hire-ez.git

2. Install dependencies

• Install Composer (http://getcomposer.org/)
• From the root project directory, run composer install
• Install node.js (http://nodejs.org/download/)
• In assets/build, run npm install

3. Configure your local database

• Create an empty MySQL database named "hire-ez" (or whatever your heart desires)
• Copy the application/config/local_example directory to application/config/local (which will be .gitignore'd)
• Enter your database credentials in application/config/local/database.php
• Install the Laravel migrations table: php artisan migrate:install --env=local
• Give yourself some seed data: php artisan seed --env=local

4. Run the Grunt watcher

We use the awesome Grunt to compile, concatenate, and minify our assets. We use Stylus instead of CSS, Coffeescript instead of Javascript, and Jade templates that compile to PHP.

Running the watcher is as easy as cd assets/build; grunt watch.

5. You're good to go!

For further reading you can check out the Laravel documentation. We'll be updating this readme soon with more info on how you can contribute to the development of RFP-EZ.