A simple web application that allows the Chicago Department of Public Health to monitor Chicago food-borne-illness-releated tweets, and respond in such a way that facilitates the submission of a 311 report.

FoodBorne uses several services, including Chicago's Open 311, Twitter, and a hosted MongoDB service which classifies tweets as food-borne-illness related. To setup a development environment, you will need to obtain api keys for Open 311 and Twitter, as well as MongoDB credentials from the Smart Chicago Collaborative.

Once you have obtained the necessary keys and credentials, copy the contents of config/settings.yml.example into a new file named config/settings.yml, and fill in the necessary information.

The live site is hosted on Heroku, and can be found at http://www.foodbornechicago.org/. All api keys are set and retrieved using Heroku's config variables.

There are two, namespaced rake tasks for fetching tweets:

Pulls from a dummy @foodpoisonuser Twitter account.

rake fetch:twitter

Pulls from the MongoDB classifier. As mentioned above, you will need credentials provided by the Smart Chicago Collaborative.

rake fetch:classifier