Exploring the distribution of wealth in the United States with data from the US Census API for the Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon
See this live: http://cents-us-dollars-them.herokuapp.com/
Clone a copy of the git repo to your local machine
git clone git@github.com:cgcardona/cents_us.git
Make sure you request an api key
We're gonna wanna stash that api key somewhere private so that noone else can get their hands on it
Because I'm running the app on Heroku I'm using this method
Start by installing the foreman
gem from heroku
gem install foreman
Foreman is a command-line tool for running Procfile-backed apps. It’s installed automatically by the Heroku Toolbelt, and also available as a Ruby gem.
You need to create a Procfile
with something similar to the following:
web: bundle exec rails server -p $PORT
Now create a .env
file with your config vars
AUTH_KEY=1111111111333333333333333333333777777777777
Once you've got this set up then you start WEBrick with
foreman start
Also you'll want to put your auth key on heroku with
heroku config:add AUTH_KEY=1111111111333333333333333333333777777777777
Make sure to add .env
to your .gitignore
file so that your config vars don't
get checked into version control
2010 Census Summary File 1 (SF1)
American Community Survey 5 Year Data
This is a list of gems that I've added for this project. I'm not listing the gems that come out of the box with rails in the interest of brevity
'underscore-rails', '~> 1.4.3'
'haml-rails', '~>0.3.5'
'd3js-rails'
'bootstrap-sass'
Check out the Gemfile for more info
More stuff here soon...
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