eaternet

LIVES-data Health Score Adapters

Publish your local restaurant health scores.

In a nutshell: each agency which inspects restaurants can have an "adapter" which is a Ruby class. Its adapter converts its source format into a simple, standard one. Anybody can then use these adapters to get the data and work with it how they like. Eaternet, in particular, will use the production-ready adapters to pull and publish the information daily on our website.

Available Adapters

Area	Agency	Ruby Class	Notes
Austin, TX	City of Austin	Austin
Las Vegas	Southern Nevada Health District	Snhd	Needs refactoring and docs
New York City	City of New York Health Department	Nyc	Dataset wiki page
Portland, OR, USA	Multnomah Couty Environmental Health	Multco	Deprecated. Needs to be updated to use the Accela API
San Francisco	City of San Francisco	Sf	Needs docs

Usage

Example: print the names of all New York City restaurants.

require 'eaternet'

nyc = Eaternet::Nyc.new
nyc.businesses.each { |biz| puts biz.name }

Each adapter provides a small set of enumerators such as businesses and inspections. See the Las Vegas tests to learn how an application would use this gem. The framework also includes standardized data transfer objects which these enumerators return.

Logging

• Optionally set EATERNET_LOG_FILE to send to a file instead of STDOUT.
• Optionally set EATERNET_LOG_SEVERITY to an integer to control which messages are reported. Through experimenting with Logger::, I've found that DEBUG is 0, INFO is 1, WARN is 2, ERROR is 3, and FATAL is 4.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'eaternet'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install eaternet

Roadmap

See the eaternet/adapters repo for the project roadmap.

Contributing

Write an adapter for your city's restaurant health scores! Or do a small refactor or add documentation. We're happy to get the help; submit a GitHub Issue to start a conversation.

To add your local health scores, you just need to create a class which include's AbstractAdapter. We like good tests, as well. Submit a pull requests to start a conversation, and we'll work with you.

Once a new adapter is production-ready, we'll plug it into the Eaternet system, and your adapter will be put into daily production. We're working with several organizations to publish the information. Yelp was the first to work with us, and we have new partnerships in the works which we'll announce soon.