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Expenditure tracking for US House elections
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== Expendicus Expendicus is a web-based tool to explore the independent communications spending made by Political Action Committees during an election cycle. Expendicus was created by Offensive Politics and can be accessed here: http://offensivepolitics.net/expendicus. A introduction to independent expenditures and Expendicus is available at http://offensivepolitics.net/blog/?p=6 == Prerequisites Expendicus requires a recent version of Ruby on Rails (2.2.2 or greater) and a recent version of Ruby Gems (1.3 or greater). Expendicus requires a recent MySQL server (5.0 or later) that has "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE" privileges enabled. == Installation 1. Get the latest Expendicus source from GitHub: > git clone git://github.com/offensivepolitics/expendicus.git 2. Get the latest copy of the data that powers Expendicus from http://offensivepolitics.net/dev_data.tar.gz and save it into your "expendicus/dev_data" directory, creating the d 5C4E irectory if neccessary. 3. Add an entry to github to your GEM config. > sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com 4. Install missing GEMs > gem install htttparty --no-ri --no-rdoc > gem install fastercsv --no-ri --no-rdoc > gem install ar-extensions --no-ri --no-rdoc > gem install GeoRuby --no-ri --no-rdoc 5. Install plugins - From within the "expendicus" directory: > script/plugin install git://github.com/pullmonkey/open_flash_chart.git > script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/georuby/SpatialAdapter/trunk/spatial_adapter > script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/ym4r/Plugins/GM/trunk/ym4r_gm > script/plugin install git://github.com/mcommons/annotatedtimeline-for-rails.git > script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/auto_complete.git 6. Create 'config/database.yml' Sample: development: adapter: mysql encoding: utf8 database: inex_development pool: 5 username: root password: host: localhost 7. Create databases > rake db:create 8. Migrate DB > rake db:migrate 9. Run the import scripts > rake import:all 10. Edit API key config/environment.rb line 79 TransAPI::OpenSecretsAPI::api_key = "<your OpenSecrets API key goes here>" TransAPI::SunlightLabsAPI::api_key = "<your sunlight labs API key goes here>" 10. Edit Path URL - ONLY PERFORM THIS STEP IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING IN DEVELOPMENT MODE config/environment.rb line 69 Change config.action_controller.relative_url_root = "/expendicus" to match your relative root directory of expendicus. 11. Run the server > script/server At this point you should be able to browse to http://localhost:3000/ and see Expendicus in action.
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