horkos

Horkos WebScrapping live results of canadian elections (provincial as well) + wasted votes analysis

"In Greek mythology, Horkos personifies the curse that will be inflicted on any person who swears a false oath".
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horkos

Democracy? What about this 50% unrepresented votes?

Installation

Some requirements:

• sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-curl php5-cli php5-gd
  
  

• Composer:
  cd /usr/local/bin; sudo apt-get install curl && curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  
  

  • To install composer on dreamhost, see http://www.geekality.net/2013/02/01/dreamhost-composer/
    
    

• Populate the symphony dir with vendor extensions: cd horkos/symfony; composer.phar install
  
  

• Generate the bootstrap file: ./vendor/sensio/distribution-bundle/Sensio/Bundle/DistributionBundle/Resources/bin/build_bootstrap.php
  
  

• Also put the http conf in the right place:
  cd horkos/doc/ ;
sudo cp horkos2015.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/ ;
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ ;
sudo ln -s ../sites-available/horkos2015.conf ;
  
  

• Set up permissions as per http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/installation.html#checking-symfony-application-configuration-and-setup
  
  

  • Using ACL on a system that supports chmod +a

    rm -rf app/cache/* ;
    rm -rf app/logs/* ;
    
    HTTPDUSER=`ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
    sudo chmod +a "$HTTPDUSER allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
    sudo chmod +a "`whoami` allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs

    
    

  • Using ACL on a system that does not support chmod +a

    HTTPDUSER=`ps aux | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1`
    sudo setfacl -R -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX app/cache app/logs
    sudo setfacl -dR -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX app/cache app/logs

    
    

• If wish to have some static data for devlopement : cd horkos/eshu/ ; sudo tar -xzf data.tar.gz
  Or webScrape data from http://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx using horkos/eshu/cdn.bash