Rickey

Rickey queries MLBAM's servers for information about transactions in Major and Minor League Baseball.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rickey'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rickey

Usage

You specify a date to fetch transactions:

Rickey.new(date: Date.new(2015, 6, 1)).fetch

You can query for minor leagues or rookie ball:

Rickey.new(date: Date.new(2015, 6, 1), sport_code: "aaa").fetch

You can query for a specific team's transactions:

# Cardinals transactions on 6/5/2015
Rickey.new(date: Date.new(2015, 6, 5), team_id: 138).fetch

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/geoffharcourt/rickey. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

Moneyball is © 2015 Geoff Harcourt. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.