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Salt Lake County (SLCo) Court Calendar Service

Usage

Visit production application at https://slco-court-calendar-service.herokuapp.com/.

Request data from the API.

API

Event Search

Responds with zero or more court calendar events.

GET /api/v0/event-search.json

Search Parameters

Specify one or more search parameters. A result will be included in the response if it matches ALL request conditions.

event_search_parameter description example
first_name The defendant's first name. KARL
last_name The defendant's last name. MALONE
birth_date The defendant date of birth in YYYY-MM-DD format. 1988-04-05

Contributing

Prerequisites

Install ruby and bundler.

Install postgresql.

Download source code and install package dependencies.

git clone [email protected]:slco-2016/slco-court-calendar-service.git
cd slco-court-calendar-service/
bundle install

Set the following environment variables based on credentials obtained from county government partners:

  • SLCO_FTP_HOST
  • SLCO_FTP_USER
  • SLCO_FTP_PASSWORD

Create database user.

psql
CREATE USER courtbot_slco WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'c0urtb0t!';
ALTER USER courtbot_slco CREATEDB;
ALTER USER courtbot_slco WITH SUPERUSER;
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Create and migrate the development database.

bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rake db:seed

Extract VINE data from the SLCo FTP server.

bundle exec rake extract:vine_files

Testing

Create and migrate the test database.

bundle exec rake db:test:prepare

Add features and corresponding tests, then run tests.

bundle exec rspec spec/

Deploying

Deploy to production.

git push heroku master