publicwhip | Making parliamentary voting information accessible | Application Framework library

publicwhip is a Ruby library typically used in Server, Application Framework, Ruby On Rails applications. publicwhip has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However publicwhip has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

The OpenAustralia.org project parses the Australian Federal Hansard into ParlParse format (this due to it's history of being a fork of the UK TheyWorkForYou project). The debates XML files the parser creates, also available on data.openaustralia.org, contain voting data and we load this into a Rails application. The UK Public Whip site still operates from the original PHP codebase however it's very possible for it to be upgraded to Rails in the future. During the development of They Vote For You, the OpenAustralia Foundation was careful to ensure there is an upgrade path. To upgrade, checkout the php-compatibility branch and point the Rails application at a copy of the UK production database. Test the site out and fix any bugs - there are likely to be some UK-specific additions needed to the Rails application. Once the site is working you can then checkout a more recent version of the codebase and run rake db:migrate to upgrade the database schema. This also is likely to need some UK-specific changes. The final step is to customise the site language and interface. The best way to achieve this would be to develop some sort of theming system.