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

require 'everypolitician'

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

If you want to point at a different countries.json, e.g. a local path or a different url, you can set it like this:

Everypolitician.countries_json = 'path/to/local/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.