Crime In Chicago Cedar

Showcase crime statistics for the city of Chicago

Requirements

Sinatra Postgres Memcache

Starting

• Clone the git repository

  > git clone git@github.com:open-city/crime-in-chicago.git

• Install all gems necessary

  > gem install bundler
  > bundle install

• Set up database

  > pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l logfile start
  starts postgres
  
  > rake db:setup_from_scratch
  downloads file from City of Chicago Data Portal (~1.3Gb)
  sets up database and runs import from downloaded file (~20-30 minutes)

• Setup and start memcached

  > brew install memcached (for OS X, other OS's will need to install manually)
  > memcached &

• Start application server

  > unicorn
  navigate to http://localhost:8080

Contributing to Crime in Chicago

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been

• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

• Fork the project

• Start a feature/bugfix branch

• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentio

• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 Crime In Chicago. See LICENSE.txt for further details.