Application: whitehall
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
- Ownership
- #govuk-publishing-experience-tech
- Hosting
- AWS (EKS)
- Category
- Publishing apps
Relevant manual pages
Example pages published by whitehall
README
Whitehall is deployed in two modes:
Live examples (public facing APIs)
Live examples (public facing frontend)
CSV Previews
Fields of Operation
Running the Application
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.
Nomenclature
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Govspeak A variation of Markdown used throughout whitehall as the general publishing format
Technical documentation
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.
Running the test suite
# 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
Further documentation
See the docs/
directory.
Licence
MIT License