Be sure to edit this file as things change…

Anyone caring for an Animal is a Foster. Fosters must have a Home. Animals must have a Home.

An Animal will move from one Home to another and that may change their Foster.

That means that members of an organization who are administrators, are Fosters. They may have a shelter where an animal is housed, which is the animal's Home. Or those administrators may be housing an animal at their actual house, which will still be the animal's Home.

Members of an organization who volunteer to help with transporting animals from one place to another, would also be a Foster. And whatever locations are used for transporting to and from should be recorded as Homes with a Foster associated to each one.

People outside of the organization can signup to become a Foster where the system should record their information and create:

1. their Foster record
2. their Home record
3. their Application to become a Foster.

When an Adoption event occurs, the Animal may change Fosters and/or Homes but would no longer have a Need for Adoption.

The system should enable admins to manage the Needs of 1 or more Animals. An Animal may need to move from one Home to another quickly. Multiple animals may need to move from one Home to another by a certain date. The system should help admins make decsions about what Fosters are available and appropriate (e.g. barring exclusions) for the Animal(s) Needs.

Fosters may have Exclusions that would prevent them from being a Foster. Recording these exclusions could be automatic and/or could be manually assigned by an admin.

Homes may have Exclusions that would prevent them from housing an Animal. Recording these exclusions could be automatic and/or could be manually assigned by an admin.

Different Fosters respond to the needs of an organization differently. Some work well with SMS, others with email, still others work best with phone calls. The system should help admins or Fosters themselves manage this.

The system should provide a way to send a message about Animal Needs to a group of Fosters in the manner most appropriate to the Foster.

Each Foster should have an admin (or other role) primary point of contact with whom the Foster would have a good relationship.

Fosters currently have a boolean admin column. It's likely this should instead become some way of managing a "role".

Records like Foster and Application will likely need a way of tracking status (approved, rejected, etc.).

Multitenancy should be added ASAP. There are currently 2 organizations looking to use this software.

• git clone
• rvm install 3.0.2
• bundle install

Note: a .tool-versions file exists which contains the current supported ruby version

• asdf plugin-add ruby
• asdf install

rails s