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-Contributors to Selectricity Include:
+===============================================
+=== Depedendencies ============================
+===============================================
+
+To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
+addition to Ruby on Rails, 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
+
+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>
 
+===============================================
+=== 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 
@@ -52,5 +85,27 @@ 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]>
+
+
+