This project is basically for getting information about diseases from Health Organizations - WHO, CDC et al.

Clone the project repository by running the command below if you use SSH

git clone [email protected]:devcenter-square/disease-info.git

If you use https, use this instead

git clone https://github.com/devcenter-square/disease-info.git

This project uses Mysql, if you already have it installed on your machine, you can skip to the next step.

If you don't have it installed:

You can install it with brew update && brew install mysql

Skip this part unless you are having errors setting up your DB.

Create a config file at any location of your choice e.g

touch /usr/local/etc/my.cnf

Then type this in the file

[mysqld]
skip-external-locking

Please follow the instructions here.

• cd into the project directory.
• Run bundle install
• then rake db:create
• then rake db:migrate

Populate Database with disease info by running

rake mine_data:who

When this is done, visit the endpoint for diseases on http://localhost:3000/diseases.json to get a list of all diseases on your database.

The present scrapers are:

• WHO, collects data from WHO's Infectious diseases page

Feel free to add another scraper by first adding your rake task to the present list on lib/tasks/mine_data.rake. Then create your scraper in app/lib/scrapers. You can follow the example of the WHO scraper. If you have to add new columns to the existing Disease structure based on the data you get, feel free to do that. More importantly, add the source of your data in the more column present on the Disease object. Make sure to name space your Disease name with the source. For example Malaria from WHO is saved with name Malaria - WHO.