TeSS

ELIXIR's Training e-Support Service - A Ruby on Rails application providing a portal for registering and discovering training events and materials.

The TeSS code is open source and available under a BSD 3-Clause license. You are free to use it outside of ELIXIR, with minimal restrictions on its use and distribution. If you do create your own version/fork of TeSS, we welcome and encourage contributing your changes back to the main TeSS codebase.

Features

• Faceted browsing/filtering
• Full-text search
• Flexible user authentication
• Automated, periodic import (scraping) of resources
• Email subscriptions
• JSON API
• Embeddable widgets
• iCal export
• Semantic web-friendly - Bioschemas and EDAM Ontology integration
• Administration and curation features for managing users and content
• Customization options

Contributing

Interested in contributing to TeSS? Check out our guide on the different ways you can contribute.

Architecture overview

TeSS makes use of the following services to function:

• PostgreSQL - Database
• Solr - Search
• Sidekiq - Asynchronous tasks
• Redis - Caching

and also integrates with several external services:

• Nominatim - Geocoding
• Google Maps API - Maps and address autocompletion
• LS-Login - Authentication
• bio.tools - Tool suggestions
• FAIRsharing - Standard, policy and database suggestions

Installation

Development

TeSS can either be installed using Docker, or natively on an Ubuntu-like OS (some Mac OSX guidance also provided).

Production

To run TeSS in production, see either the Docker guide, or the Ubuntu-like OS guide.

Customization

See here for an overview of how you can customize your TeSS deployment.

API

See here for details on programmatic access to TeSS via its API.