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I'm over at Code for America ( http://codeforamerica.org ) and we've got an app ( https://github.com/codeforamerica/balance/ ) built on Twilio that lets people on food stamps check their EBT card balance via text message.

In ~3 weeks we've got almost 300 successful balance checks so far!

We're trying to expand to states outside California, and I'm bumping up against a tricky issue with some states:

Right now, we're triggering an outbound phone call with sendDigits to navigate the phone tree.

(For example, wait 2 seconds, press 1 to select English, wait 2 seconds, enter the client's EBT card number)

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• Create a new Ruby on Rails box on Nitrous.io https://www.nitrous.io/app#/boxes/new

(All the below steps will be in your Nitrous box)

• Clone the mRelief sample screening app:

git clone https://github.com/mRelief/mrelief_snap_screener_example.git

• Go into the app directory:

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=begin

Every day I use Ruby I see more and more why people become evangelists.

Take today: I was toying with evaluating different approaches to match two
data sources (API results and a giant local database), and I realized, 
"wait! this is a job for yield!"

So I wrote a pleasant little module with a function that:
- Takes a block which attempts to match an API object to rows in the 

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require 'pry'
require 'rubillow'

Rubillow.configure do |config|
  config.zwsid = ENV["ZILLOW_KEY"]
end

hoods = Rubillow::Neighborhood.region_children({ :state => 'IN', :city => 'South Bend', :childtype => 'neighborhood' })
# Hash method -- not using
#hood_region_ids = Hash.new

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[alias]
  amend = commit --amend -a
  br = branch
  co = checkout
  ds = diff --staged
  di = diff
  fetchall = fetch -v --all
  log-fancy = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(cyan)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
  log-me = !UN=$(git config user.name)&& git log --author="\"$UN\"" --pretty=format:'%h %cd %s' --date=short
  log-nice = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit

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Leaflet documentation:

http://leafletjs.com/reference.html

Simple Mapbox map:

https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/example/v1.0.0/

Leaflet plug-in to use common tile providers:

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// Quantizing data into buckets

function Quantizer(data_array) {
  min = d3.min(data)
  max = d3.max(data)

  this.quantizeNumber = d3.scale.quantize()
      .domain([min,max])
      .range([1,5]) // Start with only mapping on 1-5 color scale
}

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so what we do
is have multiple repos, some public some private
you can add private repos to a "meta-waffle” (the repo that sorta holds all others underneath it for waffle’s purposes)
and then it will show up for YOU (and others with permissions) but not for OTHERS

Waffle instructions for managing multiple repos in a single waffle: https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/wiki/FAQs#multirepo

so what i’d do is create a new repo (public) called something like “kansas-city-fellows” or somesuch
then that can be the “meta waffle” and you can configure it per the above link by adding additional project-specific repos

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