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Analysing Civic Conversations with Sensemaking Tools

1. Introduction

This guide provides practical, step-by-step guidance for conducting sensemaking analyses of civic conversations. It covers the analytical workflow from problem framing through to creating trustworthy outputs for decision-makers.

This guide focuses on the analytical process. For guidance on organising deliberations, recruitment, and community engagement, see Jigsaw's "How to run a civic conversation" guide.

Note: The workflow described here is iterative rather than strictly linear. You will move back and forth between activities depending on what you discover and the questions you're trying to answer.

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RRule Builder for Rails

A Stimulus-based RRULE (iCalendar recurrence rule) builder component for Rails applications. This provides a user-friendly interface for creating recurring event schedules without requiring external dependencies like jQuery UI or React.

Overview

This RRule builder generates iCalendar-compliant RRULE strings that can be used with libraries like rrule (Ruby gem) or rrule.js (JavaScript) to calculate recurring event occurrences.

Features:

• ✅ Pure Stimulus controller (no jQuery UI or React dependencies)

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Rails Turbo Frame Association Pattern (Updated)

A clean approach for managing many-to-many associations with search, add, and remove functionality using Turbo Frames in Rails. This updated version includes partial-based search results and bidirectional associations.

Overview

This pattern allows users to:

• Search for items to associate
• Add items to an association
• Remove items from an association

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  <summary class="cursor-pointer text-gray-400 border border-gray-400 rounded-full p-2" data-action="mouseenter->utility#openSummary toggle->utility#toggleSummaryStyle">
    <%= user_icon("w-6 h-6 text-inherit") %>
  </summary>
  <div class="absolute right-0 mt-2 w-48 bg-white rounded-md shadow-lg py-1 z-50 border border-gray-200">
    <%= link_to "View Profile", profile_path, class: "block px-4 py-2 text-sm text-gray-700 hover:bg-gray-100" %>
    <%= link_to "Edit Profile", edit_profile_path, class: "block px-4 py-2 text-sm text-gray-700 hover:bg-gray-100" %>
    <%= link_to "Settings", edit_user_registration_path, class: "block px-4 py-2 text-sm text-gray-700 hover:bg-gray-100" %>
    <%= link_to "Sign out", destroy_user_session_path, data: { turbo_method: :delete }, class: "block px-4 py-2 text-sm text-gray-700 hover:bg-gray-100" %>
  </div>

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gitvis - A git log visualiser in your terminal

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In website headers you can link to your chosen licence, e.g. in the case of creative commons:

<link rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" />

Likewise there's the Dublin core standard version:

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Extracting text

Download site recursively

wget --mirror --convert-links --page-requisites --no-parent -P output_directory https://example.com

Options:

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Putting related 0 to many resources within a form

For example, we have Paper and EvidenceItem models. We want to let the user add/remove/edit EvidenceItems while they are adding or editing Paper records.

The Paper model looks like this:

class Paper < ApplicationRecord

 has_many :evidence_items, dependent: :destroy

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digitalWestie's common webapp icons cheatsheet

A list of unicode icons that you can use instead of loads of svg markup.

If you don't see anything you like, check out: http://unicode.org/charts/index.html#symbols
https://symbl.cc/en/unicode/table/
https://www.toptal.com/designers/htmlarrows/

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