wrong api end point

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pkg/
+Gemfile.lock

Gemfile

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+source "http://www.rubygems.org"
+
+gem 'patron', '>=0.4.6'
+
+# Add dependencies to develop your gem here.
+# Include everything needed to run rake, tests, features, etc.
+group :development do
+  gem "rspec", "< 2"
+  gem "rdoc", "~> 3.12"
+  gem "bundler", "~> 1.0.0"
+  gem "jeweler", "~> 1.8.3"
+
+  # optional runtime dependencies, required for tests
+  gem 'ym4r'
+  gem 'mcll4r'
+end

History.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+== 0.3.3 2010-10-06
+
+* 1 minor enhancement:
+  * Rate-limit parallel requests to 20/second. Note that higher rates is acceptable for off hours, as per Clinton Adams, 2010-10-06: "Could you lower that to 20/second if it's occurring between 8AM-8PM EST?  In the off hours 200/second is fine."
+
+== 0.3.2 2010-10-05
+
+* 1 major enhancement
+  * Add support for parallel requests via Typhoeus.  Currently only available on Candiate.get_bio and Rating.get_candidate_rating
+
+== 0.3.1 2010-06-19
+
+* 2 major enhancements:
+  * Add Candidate.get_by_zip, District.get_by_zip, Election.get_by_zip and Official.get_by_zip (dwillis)
+  * Add Official.get_statewide (empact)
+
+== 0.3.0 2010-03-25
+
+* 3 major enhancement:
+  * Rename the project/gem to just 'votesmart'
+  * Move http access to Patron for performance
+  * Add retry logic on HTTP failure, with exponential backoff
+
+* 2 minor enhancements:
+  * Add Official#party to reflect the PVS officeParties data
+  * Sig descriptions:
+    * sometimes included UTF control characters for punctuation, which are now translated to ascii
+    * often started and ended in a quote, which is now avoided
+
+* 1 bug fix:
+  * Fix that Rating.get_sig_list would blow up on a bad parameter
+
 == 0.0.1 2009-02-10
 
 * 1 major enhancement:

Rakefile

@@ -1,26 +1,38 @@
 %w[rubygems rake rake/clean fileutils].each { |f| require f }
-require 'spec'
-require 'spec/rake/spectask'
-require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/lib/ruby-votesmart'
 
-begin
-  require 'jeweler'
-  Jeweler::Tasks.new do |s|
-    s.name = "ruby-votesmart"
-    s.summary = "A wrapper for the Project Vote Smart API"
-    s.email = "dancunning@gmail.com"
-    s.homepage = "http://github.com/netroots/ruby-votesmart"
-    s.description = "A wrapper for the Project Vote Smart API"
-    s.authors = ["Dan Cunning"]
-  end
-rescue LoadError
-  puts "Jeweler not available. Install it with: sudo gem install technicalpickles-jeweler -s http://gems.github.com"
+require 'jeweler'
+Jeweler::Tasks.new do |s|
+  s.name = "votesmart"
+  s.summary = "A wrapper for the Project Vote Smart API"
+  s.email = "ben.woosley@gmail.com"
+  s.homepage = "http://github.com/Empact/votesmart"
+  s.description = "A wrapper for the Project Vote Smart API"
+  s.authors = ["Dan Cunning", "Ben Woosley"]
 end
+Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
 
 Dir['tasks/**/*.rake'].each { |t| load t }
 
-Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new
+require 'spec/rake/spectask'
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:spec) do |spec|
+  spec.libs << 'lib' << 'spec'
+  spec.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
+end
 
-#Cucumber::Rake::Task.new
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:rcov) do |spec|
+  spec.libs << 'lib' << 'spec'
+  spec.pattern = 'spec/**/*_spec.rb'
+  spec.rcov = true
+end
 
-#task :default => [:features]
+task :default => :spec
+
+require 'rdoc/task'
+RDoc::Task.new do |rdoc|
+  version = File.exist?('VERSION') ? File.read('VERSION') : ""
+
+  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
+  rdoc.title = "votesmart #{version}"
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README*')
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
+end

VERSION.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
---- 
+---
 :major: 0
-:minor: 2
-:patch: 4
+:minor: 4
+:patch: 1
+:build: 

lib/vote_smart.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+module VoteSmart
+  API_URL = "http://api.votesmart.org/"
+  API_FORMAT = "JSON"
+
+  class << self
+    attr_accessor :api_key
+  end
+
+  class RequestFailed < StandardError; end
+end
+
+VoteSmart.api_key = "key"
+
+require "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/vote_smart/common"
+
+Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/vote_smart/*.rb"].each do |source_file| 
+  require source_file unless source_file == "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/vote_smart/common.rb"
+end

lib/vote_smart/candidate.rb

@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ def self.get_by_election election_id
     def self.get_by_district district_id, election_year = nil
       request("Candidates.getByDistrict", "districtId" => district_id, "electionYear" => election_year)
     end
-
+
+    # Returns candidates in the provided zip code, with optional zip+4 and stage
+    def self.get_by_zip zip5, election_year=nil, zip4=nil, stage_id=nil
+      request("Candidates.getByZip", "zip5" => zip5, "electionYear" => election_year, "zip4" => zip4, "stageId" => stage_id)
+    end
   end
-
 end

lib/vote_smart/candidate_bio.rb

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ module VoteSmart
   class CandidateBio < Common
 
     # Returns basic bio details on a candidate
-    def self.get_bio can_id
-      request("CandidateBio.getBio", "candidateId" => can_id)
+    def self.get_bio can_id, &block
+      request("CandidateBio.getBio", {"candidateId" => can_id}, &block)
     end
 
     #