we_the_people is a gem to access the new We The People petitions API.

Here are a few example calls:

>> petition = WeThePeople::Resources::Petition.find("1234")
>> petition.body
# => "Example body"
>> petition.title
# => "My Example Petition"
>> petition.issues.first.name
# => "Civil Rights"

>> petitions = WeThePeople::Resources::Petition.all
>> petition2 = petitions.first
# Not yet implemented in the API (signatures)...
>> petition2.signatures.all.first.city
# => "Orlando"

You can configure a few options on the WeThePeople module:

• api_key - Your We The People API key (optional).
• default_page_size - The page size to request by default for all resources.
• client - If you don't want to use rest-client you can substitute in another HTTP client object that conforms to the same API here.
• mock - If set to "1", all requests will return mock results.

Hack some code, make a pull request. I'll review it and merge it in! Need some ideas as to where to get started? Here are a few:

• Tests. Please?
• Make resources be able to be related + associated. It looks like responses may end up going this route.
• Documentationages.