Want to do your part in the upcoming U.S. presidential elections? There’s an open-source app. For that.
The Democratic party has released a Ruby on Rails open-source program, Voter Registration that enables you to deploy a Web application that enables U.S. citizens to register to vote. There is also a version that you can simply embed on your site, which is branded for the Obama/Biden campaign. The open-source version is unbranded so there’s nothing on it that even a Tea Party member could object to.
To deploy the open-source version, your Web site will need to have Ruby 1.9.3 installed and the the RubyGem “bundler” installed. RubyGem is the Ruby package manager.