This gem processes City of Charlotte budget data, and produces a JSON file suitable for into budget display applications such as Government Budget Explorer or Visual-Town-Budget.
We've observed from practice that knowledge, analysis, and processing of the dataset is independent enough from display that we'd like to create institutional knowledge about how to process this information. Our own inputs may vary from year to year (as they did from 2015 to 2016), so we create this gem to start with the benefits of antiquity each time. A durable, consistent, documentable in-memory model allows us to serialize to any number of formats, in addition to providing for flexible ad-hoc processing as well.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'charlotte_budget'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install charlotte_budget
Processing is exposed in the default rake task.
Run bin/console for an interactive prompt that allows you to manually execute intermediate analysis and processing.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/CodeForCharlotte/charlotte_budget. 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.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.