Allow other domains besides http://data.cityofchicago.org

[christophermanning]

Currently the root (http://data.cityofchicago.org) is hard coded and seems to be the only thing specific to the Chicago Data portal:

class Base
  def self.root
    "http://data.cityofchicago.org"
  end

but if that could be modified at runtime then you could use this gem to interface with other socrata sites:
http://explore.data.gov
http://datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov
...etc

A suggestion would be to make the root url could have an attr_accessor like the app_token does.

[srobbin]

That sounds like a great idea.