GrassrootsPolicy.com is a website I’ve been working on in Ruby on Rails, hosted on Heroku.  The idea of the site is that users post, vote, and comment on political ideas. If you feel passionate about an idea you can share the link with your friends, and encourage them to provide feedback and vote on the issue.  Top ideas might get the attention of elected officials who can do something about it.

So far, Rails has made a few features easy…

• User registration and login is implemented with gem ‘devise’
• Threaded comments are implemented with gem ‘awesome_nested_set’ and rails partial views.
• jQuery and jQuery UI are used in a lot of the default templates, tabs, and ajax postbacks for commenting, voting, and posting new ideas.

I’ve got a handful of features to implement, which I should probably start to manage on trello.com… but for now please Register, Vote, Comment and post your own Ideas!

PS, the code is messy, but if you feel like taking a look its out on github.com/recalde/grassroots.