This is the code that backs the Twitter account for @congress247. It retrieves publicly accessible data about votes in the U.S. Congress and tweets summaries about them. It currently only reports on Senate votes.
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/nevern02/vote_tracker.git
Make a local secrets file:
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
The rake update task does all the work of grabbing the latest vote data and turning it into tweets.
- Fork it ( http://github.com/nevern02/vote_tracker/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request