code4hr / cutiesinhamptonroads

This is a twitter bot that posts a random adoptable pet in Norfolk from Petfinder.com.

code4hr.org

The website for the Code for Hampton Roads Brigade

Goals

1. Explain what Code for HR is and the type of work we do.
2. To celebrate our events, projects, and discussions!
3. Encourage current and new members to participate with clear ways to get involved.
4. To have this site be easily reused by other Brigades just starting out.

Tech

Built using Jekyll, Bootstrap, and the CfAPI.

Contributing

Submitting an Issue

We use GitHub Issues to track bugs and features. We've included several of our open GitHub Issues right on our homepage using the Civic Tech Issue Finder.

Running the Site Locally on Your Computer

To run the site locally on your own computer (most helpful for previewing your own changes), you will need Jekyll installed (click here for Jekyll installation instructions.)

Fork and clone the repository, then run the following command in the root directory of the repo:

jekyll serve

or

jekyll serve --watch which will watch for changes to files.

Your computer should now be serving your local copy of the site at:

http://localhost:4000.

Sharing Your Changes Using Jekit

You can use the nifty Jekit app to preview changes you make to this site.

To do this, fork this repo, and commit your changes on a branch to your fork. You can then preview what your changes look like by navigating to:

https://jekit.codeforamerica.org/USERNAME/code4hr/BRANCHNAME/

For a basic example of its usage, if GitHub user @lolname has made changes to the projects page on their fork (on the master branch), they can preview their changes using Jekit by going to:

https://jekit.codeforamerica.org/lolname/code4hr/master/projects

Submitting a Pull Request

1. Fork the project.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Implement your feature or bug fix.
4. Commit and push your changes.
5. Submit a pull request.

cutiesinhamptonroads's Issues

API Data Attribute - Spay/Neuter status

It seems like denver animals have it, is this not possible in the petfinder api?

https://twitter.com/CutiesInDenver

Centralize issue tracking

There are issues that might affect / be welcomed by all (or most) instances of CutePets.

We may want to decide on picking a repo to keep these non-city-specific issues in.

I would propose Denver or Boston, with an issue tag for "relevant to multiple instances". Input welcome!

Hampton Roads SPCA setup

Cuties In norfolk is very norfolk specific,

how are the SPCA's in hampton roads organized, and setup possibly a way to integrate with their twitter feeds or keep our own.

Pinned Tweets

is this programatic in the Cuties Application or is someone pinning these?

I noticed the same tweet was being pinned over and over now but before I thought it was consistantly cycling per hour.

https://twitter.com/CutiesInNorfolk/status/487445103557226496

# Tag These Posts

dogs #cats #petadoption etc..

squee.ee domain name

you guys can have it for this project if you want. @lynnaloo do you want me to point it somewhere?

Do your PHP Homework

Stanley should do his PHP homework instead of working on cute puppy Twitter bots all night.

@CutiesInPtown twitter name has a typo

Missing the 'i' in 'CutesInPortsmouth'

Heroku scheduler and environment variables

I put an issue in with Denver to see how they're getting around this Heroku problem where the rake tasks do not have access to the loaded configs. Right now for CutiesInNorfolk, I am just setting the configs in the scheduler, but that's a little messy until I find a better solution.

Portsmouth Tweeting #Norfolk

Hi! My name's Monkey, a male Domestic Short Hair. #DomesticShortHair #cat #Norfolk https://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/29073056 …

https://twitter.com/CutiesInPtown/status/488924471034912769

could be a known bug that hasn't been fixed but should be using some portsmouth locality hash tags.

@bschoenfeld would you know any?

Contact Shelters

Contact shelters in Hampton Roads: Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Norfolk to tell them about the project and see if they would like us to tweet directly to their twitter.

Cuties In X

Since Hampton Roads is composed of 13 different municipalities, and also there are several times more shelters splitting each handle up by place

• @CutiesInNorfolk
• @CutiesInPtown
• ----

The long term strategic goal is to work with shelters to get them to output their own twitter api tokens so we can setup heroku so they can post through their own twitter handles.

Change API to support multiple shelters

Each city has several shelters so that shelter_id should really be an array of the shelters in that city. Right now I am using the Norfolk Care Center for Norfolk, but we should add all of the Norfolk shelters from PetFinder.

Twitter Handle Logo

@aureately @lynnaloo @aimsrandom maybe another cat inspired mascot... :)?

Norfolk SPCA Shelter is not working

There is an issue with their petfinder page, so you can't load any animals. I used the Norfolk Animal Care center instead.

Cuties-as-a-Service

This is a pie in the sky pitch idea that I thought would be cool.

When this is more refined and more awesome we need to do a Norfolk Blow out promotion.

So like Uber Kittens, we're going to fulfill Ian's and Donna's dream of CUTIES AS A SERVICE.
http://blog.uber.com/ICanHasUberKITTENS

The winners and players C4HRVA, CarryNorfolk, Norfolk Shelters, (NorfolkJS), **StartNorfolk

From a time period some day in the future, be able to request cuties as a service but following the @cutiesinnorfolk FEED and REPLYING to the photo, "@CARRYNORFOLK I NEED THIS FUR BALL NOW" where then @itsEconomics then hops on his bike and hitches up the wagon and brings the cuties all over norfolk.

Free promo event with recommended TIP/Contribution going to the shelters.

Good Awareness/Marketing/Good feels event.

THOUGHTS
@lynnaloo @itsEconomics
cc allso
@tjwebb @c4hrva @FenderThinks

Facebook

suggested from our local members using Facebook as a platform

TRAVIS CI script is erroring out

Test spec is erroring out locally but dont know much about ruby on travis ci

language: ruby
script:
  - "ruby -r 'minitest/autorun' spec/pet_spec.rb"
rvm:
  - 2.1.0

https://github.com/c4hrva/CutiesInHamptonRoads/blob/master/.travis.yml

Long breed names are causing tweets to go over 140 characters

"Status is over 140 characters" error is causing some animals to not be tweeted. This is because some of the breeds (and resulting hashtags) are too long. An example is "American Staffordshire Terrier."

Need to add some checks lengths of hashtags to prevent long tweets.

Website?

on the twitter handle this is the URL linked.

Are we thinking to create an actual github page or stick to convention and link to source code

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