CensusFor
v. 1.1
CensusFor lets you quickly return 2014 US Census data for States and Counties, including Puerto Rico municipios. Returns correctly styled USA county text, ie. "juneau ak" ==> "Juneau City and Borough, Alaska"
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'census_for'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install census_for
Usage
For quick US County population estimates:
$ CensusFor::County.population("AnyCounty, AnyState")
Example:
CensusFor::County.population("Travis County, Texas")
CensusFor::County.population("fulton ga"
CensusFor::County.population("East Baton Rouge Parish, LA")
CensusFor::County.population("ponce municipio, pr")
For the first above example, "Travis County, Texas", returns:
$ => 1151145
County .population method uses the following to parse_city_state submissions:
$ CensusFor::County.parse_county_state("AnyCounty, AnyState")
Example:
CensusFor::County.parse_county_state("Baldwin, AL")
CensusFor::County.parse_county_state("ponce pr")
CensusFor::County.parse_county_state("lafourche, LA")
CensusFor::County.parse_county_state("Juneau, AK")
For these examples, returns:
$ => "Baldwin County, Alabama"
$ => "Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico"
$ => "Lafourche Parish, Louisiana"
$ => "Juneau City and Borough, Alaska"
For quick State Census retrieval:
CensusFor::State.population("AnyState")
Example:
CensusFor::State.population("GA")
CensusFor::State.population("new york")
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/evo21/census_for.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.