Commons::Builder

This gem contains the build scripts for Democratic Commons repositories.

Installation

Add this line to your Democratic Commons repository's Gemfile:

gem 'commons-builder'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install commons-builder

Usage

Starting a new Democratic Commons repository

In an empty repository, create config.json a bit like this one:

{
  "languages": [
    "it",
    "en"
  ],
  "country_wikidata_id": "Q38"
}

If you have additional administrative areas for which you want to include legislatures and executives, then add a additional_admin_area_ids key:

{
  "languages": [
    "it",
    "en"
  ],
  "country_wikidata_id": "Q38",
  "additional_admin_area_ids: [
    "Q1234",
    "Q1235"
  ]
}

If the regional administrative admin areas you want aren't FLACSen, use regional_admin_area_type_id to specify the Wikidata ID of the superclass you want to use.

Create the directory structure and index.json files in each, each containing an empty array to be populated later:

mkdir -p boundaries executive legislative
for d in boundaries executive legislative ; do
    if [ ! -e $d/index.json ] ; then
        echo -e "[\n\n]" > $d/index.json
    fi
done

Creating or refreshing the branch indexes

In the Democratic Commons repository you should run:

$ bundle exec generate_legislative_index | tee legislative/index-warnings.txt
$ bundle exec generate_executive_index | tee executive/index-warnings.txt

Caveats:

• There's sometimes a disconnect between cities and the administrative areas covered by their mayors. For example, the Mayor of London is associated with Greater London, so won't be picked up to be automatically included in executive/index.json, but the entry can still be maintained by hand. As a workaround, you could explicitly add the appropriate admin areas as explained above.

TODO: Explain boundaries/index.json

Refreshing data from Wikidata

In the Democratic Commons repository you should run:

$ bundle exec build update
$ bundle exec build build | tee build_output.txt

... to build the output files.

You ought to commit changes after each of these commands separately.

Development

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

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/everypolitician/commons-builder. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

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

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Commons::Builder project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.