fec_results_generator

FecResultsGenerator

A Ruby gem that takes Federal Election Commission election results as retrieved by the FecResults gem and generates JSON files in a directory structure, suitable for producting a static API. You can see an example of the data at the FecResults site.

The resulting JSON API is designed to be used as both a reference for House, Senate and Presidential election results and also as a reconciliation service for connecting results produced by state authorities with federal data such as FEC candidate ids.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'fec_results_generator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install fec_results_generator

Usage

In irb, create an instance of the JsonGenerator class:

g = FecResultsGenerator::JsonGenerator.new(:year => 2000)
g.congress  # for congressional results
g.president # for presidential results
g.summary  # for vote totals

This will create the following directories and files:

api/2000/congress

api/2000/president

api/2000/summary

with one or more files in each. The same directories and files are created for any even-numbered year between 2000 and 2012. Some years do not have all of the data that others; those files are still generated but are empty arrays.

Contributing

• Fork it ( http://github.com//fec_results_generator/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create new Pull Request