/LegisTracker

Track bill in the Georgia Assembly

Primary LanguageRuby

AJC LegiTracker ↑

This is a Ruby-on-Rails web applicqation which allows users to track legislation through the Georgia State Assembly.

Requirements ↑

Ruby 1.9.2; Rails 3.0.3. To install gems: bundle install.

Setup ↑

  1. Configure a config/database.yml file to point to your database server.

  2. Create databases and tables:

    rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:test:prepare

  3. Load data from the legistures online xml feed from the rails console:

    Bill.reload_from_xml

  4. Load RSS feeds from the rails console:

    HouseFeed.update_from_feed
SenateFeed.update_from_feed

Resources ↑

The House bill status xml feed can be found at

www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/list/BillSummary.xml

The House vote xml feed can be found at

www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/list/HouseVotes.xml

The Senate vote xml feed can be found at

www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2011_12/list/SenateVotes.xml