NOTE: If you are looking for an API wrapper for DonorsChoose.org, please checkout https://github.com/JumpstartLab/donors_choose
This library sprung from the 2011 Hacking Education contest for DonorsChoose.org. (http://www.donorschoose.org/hacking-education)
The DonorsChoose::Data module match up the normalized data provided by DonorsChoose.org to classes that inherit from ActiveRecord::Base.
This gem assumes you have loaded the DonorsChoose.org datasets into a PostgreSQL database and normalized the data. See the contest documentation for more information.
gem install donors_choose-data
project = DonorsChooseData::Data::Project.first project.donations school = DonorsChooseData::Data::School.last school.teachers
If you’d like to use it in Rails, just add the following to your Gemfile:
gem 'donors_choose-data'
If you’d like to use it stand alone, do the following:
Create a database.yml, very similar to what you’d have in Rails:
adapter: postgresql
host: localhost
username: postgres
password: password
port: 5432
database: donors_choose_data
schema_search_path: public
Then, drop into irb, require the gem, and establish the db connection
terminal$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' irb(main):001:0> require 'donors_choose-data' irb(main):001:0> DonorsChooseData::Data.connect(YAML.load(File.read('database.yml'))) irb(main):001:0> DonorsChooseData::Data::Project.first