Schulze

Calculate the winner of a Schulze method election.

This gem is intended for command-line use, though it may work alright as a library.

Warning!

This program was designed against a particular use-case... specifically, candidates must have unique last names (where last name is defined as the last element of a split). This was done because data on first names tends to be unclean (e.g., "Tim" & "Timothy" are the same person).

Installation

Install it:

$ gem install schulze

Usage

Collect ballots in a directory. Each ballot should be a file in the form:

1 A
2 B
3 C1
3 C2
4 D

Then, run the program:

$ schulze directory/to/ballots/*.txt

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request