Everypolitician

Interface with EveryPolitician data from your Ruby application.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'everypolitician'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install everypolitician

Usage

Use as shown below, passing the :slug of the country to the country method, and the :slug of the legislature to the legislature method. Examples:

require 'everypolitician'

australia = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Australia')
australia.code # => "AU"
senate = australia.legislature('Senate')
senate.popolo # => #<Everypolitician::Popolo::JSON>

united_kingdom = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('UK')
house_of_commons = united_kingdom.legislature('Commons')

american_samoa = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('American-Samoa')
house_of_representatives = american_samoa.legislature('House')

united_arab_emirates = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('United-Arab-Emirates')
national_council = united_arab_emirates.legislature('Federal-National-Council')

algeria = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Algeria')
national_assembly = algeria.legislature('Majlis')

# Iterate though all known countries
Everypolitician::Index.new.countries do |country|
  puts "#{country.name} has #{country.legislatures.size} legislature(s)"
end

If you want to point at a different version of countries.json you can supply an index_url option to Everypolitician::Index.new.

Everypolitician::Index.new(index_url: 'https://cdn.rawgit.com/everypolitician/everypolitician-data/080cb46/countries.json')

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/everypolitician/everypolitician.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.