This gem seems to be defunct

[apurvis]

I cannot get the gem to connect to the API, though I did write my own Faraday based adapter that worked fine for my needs.

Is this gem still supported?

The example code exceptions out:

irb(main):010:0> congresspeople = Sunlight::Legislator.all_for(:address => "123 Fifth Ave New York, NY 10003")
OpenURI::HTTPError: 403 Forbidden
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:358:in `open_http'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:736:in `buffer_open'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:211:in `block in open_loop'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:209:in `catch'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:209:in `open_loop'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:150:in `open_uri'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:716:in `open'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/open-uri.rb:34:in `open'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/ym4r-0.6.1/lib/ym4r/google_maps/geocoding.rb:23:in `get'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/sunlight-1.1.0/lib/sunlight/district.rb:26:in `get'
    from /Users/stardestroyer/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/sunlight-1.1.0/lib/sunlight/legislator.rb:71:in `all_for'
    from (irb):10

And the other example returns nil, but I was able to hit this endpoint fine from Faraday.

irb(main):011:0> Sunlight::Legislator.all_in_zipcode(90210)
=> nil

[crdunwel]

Hello! This gem is no longer officially supported. Everything is open source though so please feel free to fork this repo!

You seem to be getting a 403 error above - are you setting your API key variable? From https://github.com/sunlightlabs/ruby-sunlight#set-up

require 'rubygems'
require 'sunlight'
Sunlight::Base.api_key = 'yourapikeyfromtheurlabove'

[apurvis]

yea i set it up as per the docs... it's hard to log the raw requests; i might fork this repo and implement faraday as the middleware

[crdunwel]

There's also https://github.com/codeforamerica/congress which is much better supported.

Hi, I'm trying to set up an old project which has this gem as a dependency. I'm getting this 403 even after supplying my API key.