rubyforgood/human-essentials

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Human Essentials is an inventory management system for diaper, incontinence, and period-supply banks. It supports them in distributing to partners, tracking inventory, and reporting stats and analytics.

Stars: 593
Forks: 593
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 40
Avg merge: 4d 22h
Merged PRs (30d): 41

Dominant language: Ruby
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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40 open issues indexed

Add link to email samples from the User Guide Open

Ruby for Good 2026 DC

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5694 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Export button on annual report should revert to "Export Report" from "Please Wait..." once report generated. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5691 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Add optional phone number to users (esp Partner Users) Open

Difficulty—Intermediate Ruby for Good 2026 DC

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5687 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Re audit status from "Confirmed" to "Pending" Open

Difficulty—Beginner Ruby for Good 2026 DC

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5683 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Clean up old kit table/column Open

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5679 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Account for allocated vs unallocated inventory Open

Difficulty—Advanced Ruby for Good 2026 DC

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5667 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Distribution emails -- on change, if you add items, they do not show up in the email, and if you *only* add items, no email is generated (i.e. if you don't change levels of existing items) Open

Difficulty—Intermediate Ruby for Good 2026 DC

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5666 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Add preview of dynamic template emails Open

Difficulty—Intermediate Ruby for Good 2026 DC

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5662 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Add email samples into the User Guide and link to them Open

Ruby for Good 2026 DC

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5661 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
[FEAT]: Ability to cancel out of New Donation form Open

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5631 · 4 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Behaviour re name when adding existing user to partner Open

stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5612 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Partner Request Add Another Item auto-populates with first item when returning from failed validation Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5611 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Consider in-db encryption of sensitive data Open

Difficulty—Advanced stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5609 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
On Distributions, fix line-item column headers wrapping and alignment on narrow screens Open

stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5603 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Add a confirmation step on kit entry Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5566 · 8 comments · Opened May 17, 2026
Placeholder Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5524 · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Drop the requests.request_items field, no longer used Open

stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5506 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2026
[BUG]: Submit buttons remain in 'Saving' State when Duplicate Modal is Closed Open

🐞 Bug

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5465 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 16, 2025
Apply New Modal for Duplicate Item Entries to Distributions/Donations/Purchases etc. Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5464 · 13 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2025
Fix user feedback on clicking Audit CSV export button Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5444 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2025
[development BUG]: Not possible to login in Codespace, refused with `Your session expired.` Open

🐞 Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5401 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Partner profile mandatoriness at submission Open

Difficulty—Advanced stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5327 · 11 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2025
Clean up old data -- Duplicate items in a Request Open

core team

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5276 · Opened Jul 13, 2025
Fix far in the future issued_ats (core team only) Open

core team

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5271 · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Inventory Coming In / Going out -- Rework to Inventory Flow, including date range. Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5249 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2025
Partner Visibility of items and child requests Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5224 · 11 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2025
Investigate whether we can get information from sendgrid about failures and give that to the banks. Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5104 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2025
Error on logging out on static error pages Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5101 · 10 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2025
Reconcile itemrequests and requestitems Open

Difficulty—Advanced stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5083 · 13 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2025
add the user name to the support request Open

core team

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#5019 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2025
case insensitive sorts throughout Open

Difficulty—Intermediate stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4948 · 16 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2025
[Investigation] ChilditemRequest - can we get rid of it? Open

core team

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4656 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2024
Rework calculation of number of people to allow number of kits per person to be taken into account Open

Difficulty—Advanced NOT READY

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4542 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2024
Include inactive items in distribution reports Open

Good First Issue stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4517 · 32 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Add "Avg. number of individuals receiving period supplies monthly" to Annual Survey Open

BLOCKED Difficulty—Advanced

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4512 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Investigate Custom Devise Mailer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4384 · 5 comments · Opened May 26, 2024
Refactor report controller/views to remove local calculations Open

refactor stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#4136 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2024
Clean up unused base item fields Open

BLOCKED core team stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#3993 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 24, 2023
[Investigation] Child. Should we be able to have both active and archived (as we have now)? It seems to me that either you are active or archived. Open

core team stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#3806 · 11 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2023
Review for unused fields --> clean up Open

core team stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rubyforgood/human-essentials#3805 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2023

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