Script to Report Iran Election Results (2013) Every 1 Minute

IranElection.rb

# /usr/bin/env ruby
# if you have "rufus-scheduler" gem installed you can uncomment corresponding lines in order to
# run the script in every certain time.

# require 'rufus/scheduler'
require 'open-uri'

class Election
  VALUES = %w{Rohani Qalibaf Rezaei Jalili Velayati Qarazi }

  def initialize
    parse_js
  end

  def parse_js
    open('http://election.farsnews.com/electioninfo.js') do |f|
      f.each_line do |line|
        if line =~ /^var last/
          name, value = line.delete(';').chomp.gsub(/(^var last)/, '').split(' = ')
          instance_variable_set '@' + name.downcase, value
        end
      end
    end
  end

  def show_result
    puts '================'
    puts 'Results in:' + Time.now.strftime('%H:%M:%S')
    puts '================'
    VALUES.each do |value|
      puts value + ": \tVotes #{eval('@' + value.downcase)}\tPercent: #{(((eval '@' + value.downcase).to_f/@total.to_f)*100.00).round(2)}"
    end
  end

end

# scheduler = Rufus::Scheduler.start_new
# scheduler.every '1m', first_at: Time.now do
#   elec = Election.new
#   elec.show_result
# end
# scheduler.join

elec = Election.new
elec.show_result