Legistar

This .gem is for interacting with the Legistar API.

Installation

To install the legistar .gem, add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'legistar'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install legistar

Usage

See /specs for examples, like:

client = Legistar::Bodies.new(host: "mesa")
client.get("362") # => returns a specific Governing Body from Mesa

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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.

Publishing the gem

Assumptions:

  • VERSION.rb has been updated
  • User has access to Rubygems, if publishing.
  1. Run gem build legistar.gemspec to build legistar-0.x.x.gem
  2. Run gem push legistar-0.x.x.gem to publish the .gem to Rubygems

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests (with tests/specs) are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/afomi/legistar.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.