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-Contributors to Selectricity Include:
+===============================================
+=== Getting Selectricity ======================
+===============================================
+
+Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the GNU Affero
+General Public License version 3. You are free to use, modify, and
+distribute, or rework Selectricity under the terms of that license. Of
+course, we'd sure like it if you would send fixes back to us and tell us
+about cool stuff you do with our software!
+
+The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source
+source repository. You'll need the Git version control system or
+source control manager to check it. You can get it here:
+
+  http://git-scm.com/
+
+Once you have it, getting the source code is pretty easy. You just need
+to check out a branch with a command like this:
+
+  git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity/.git
+
+This will give you the latest *development* version of our code. If you
+want the latest production version (i.e., what we're running on the
+site), you can grab that here:
+
+  git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity-live/.git
+
+===============================================
+=== Dependencies ==============================
+===============================================
+
+To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
+addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its
+dependencies:
+
+ * rmagick
+ * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff)
+ * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines)
+
+To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the
+following gems:
+
+ * ruby-debug
+
+Also, you will need install the other applications installed first:
+
+ * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
+
+On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with: 
+  apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin rdoc \
+  libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev
+
+Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an
+Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy.
+
+
+===============================================
+=== Contributors to Selectricity Include ======
+===============================================

 
  * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
  * John Dong          <jdong@ubuntu.com>
  * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@mit.edu>
 
 
  * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
  * John Dong          <jdong@ubuntu.com>
  * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@mit.edu>
 

+===============================================
+=== Log =======================================
+===============================================
+

 07/31/07
 jlsharps: I've added a user authentication system known as
 "acts_as_authenticated" to the code. The plugin is the the vendor/plugins 
 07/31/07
 jlsharps: I've added a user authentication system known as
 "acts_as_authenticated" to the code. The plugin is the the vendor/plugins 


@@ -22,4 +84,57 @@ http://technoweenie.stikipad.com/plugins/show/Acts+as+Authenticated is the
 best site for documentation regarding acts_as_authenticaed. Also, currently
 it only stores the user_id in the session, but i just found a guide to help 
 me make it store the entire user object, so I'll do that while my battery 
 best site for documentation regarding acts_as_authenticaed. Also, currently
 it only stores the user_id in the session, but i just found a guide to help 
 me make it store the entire user object, so I'll do that while my battery 

-charges.
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+charges.
+
+08/03/07
+Handy trick: use the command 'gem_server' from a shell to create a server at 
+http://localhost:8008 that is an easy to navigate locally-hosted website with 
+all the documentation on local gems you have in a easy to read format.
+
+jlsharps: I added the Gruff plug-in today, which is viewable under the folder
+vender/plugins/gruff.  I installed it directly using the Gruff plug-in and
+included controller generate utility. The version 0.1.2, which doesn't seem to
+be the latest version. I've looked into it and it see and it seems that the
+latest version is 0.2.8. However, I wasn't sure how including a gem w/o a plugin 
+would function in end-game rails so I just what I used for now. If you guys 
+(mako of john) know how to do it, it'd probably be better to upgrade, but it 
+didn't seem like the best use of my time right now.  I got the plug-in here:
+http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/gruff. You can get the gruff gem v 0.2.8 by 
+typing "sudo gem install gruff", I believe it's also hosted on RubyForge. 
+
+I created the GraphsController for Gruff methods to use. In Pollarize I put them 
+in the ApplicationContorller file, so they would be accessible to all. While 
+that it also an option here, it would also mean there wouldn't be much room for 
+playing around because everything in the Application file has to be perfect or 
+it seems to throw Error Code 500 (basically everything breaks). The show() 
+is a sample sample provided with Gruff. 
+
+Documentation is here:http://gruff.rubyforge.org/  Alternately, if you have the 
+gem installed, you can use the ri command, or the above mentioned gem_server. 
+
+If you guys want more helpful stuff here, let me know.
+
+======================================
+=== XML-RPC INFO                    ==
+======================================
+
+The XML-RPC API is still under development, but is somewhat functional already:
+
+To instantiate a client in Ruby, try something like:
+client=ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(SelectricityAPI,"http://localhost:3000/selectricity_service/vote")
+
+
+Getting the results of a quickvote is quite simple:
+?> client.get_quickvote_results("test")
+=> #<VoteResultStruct:0x336f92c @approval_winners=[1, 2], @borda_winners=[1], @plurality_winners=[1], @ssd_winners=[1], @errors=[], @condorcet_winners=[1]>
+
+Casting a quickvote:
+client.cast_quickvote("test",1,[[1,2]])
+
+To figure out what you're voting for:
+>> client.get_quickvote_candidate_map("test")=> #<CandidateMap:0x335bbc0 @errors=[], @candidate_names=["test", "test2"], @candidate_ids=[1, 2]>
+
+
+
+
+