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The Surveyor Guide

  1. Introduction
  2. Parsing and Data Model
  3. The JSON API and Exports
  4. Special topics

Support

Start by reviewing the README.

For general discussion (e.g., "how do I do this?"), please send a message to the surveyor-dev group. This group is moderated to keep out spam; don't be surprised if your message isn't posted immediately.

For reproducible bugs, please file an issue on the GitHub issue tracker. Please include a minimal test case (a detailed description of how to trigger the bug in a clean rails application). If you aren't sure how to isolate the bug, send a message to surveyor-dev with what you know and we'll try to help.

For build status see our continuous integration page.

Take a look at our screencast (a bit dated now).

Workflow

  1. Design the survey
  2. Parse survey bundle exec rake surveyor FILE=surveys/[your_survey_file.rb]
  3. Users respond (usually via http://[your.server]/surveys)
  4. Export the results

Some other helpful rake tasks:

  • bundle exec rake surveyor:remove removes surveys that haven't been responded to.
  • bundle exec rake surveyor:unparse exports a survey into a surveyor DSL file.

Question types

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