This gem downloads the exchange rates from the European Central Bank. You can calculate exchange rates with it. It is compatible with the money gem.
$ gem install eu_central_bank
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nokogiri
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money
With the gem, you do not need to manually add exchange rates. Calling update_rates will download the rates from the European Central Bank. The API is the same as the money gem. Feel free to use Money objects with the bank.
eu_bank = EuCentralBank.new Money.default_bank = eu_bank money1 = Money.new(10) money1.bank # eu_bank # call this before calculating exchange rates # this will download the rates from ECB eu_bank.update_rates # exchange 100 CAD to USD # API is the same as the money gem eu_bank.exchange(100, "CAD", "USD") # Money.new(80, "USD") Money.us_dollar(100).exchange_to("CAD") # Money.new(124, "CAD") # using the new exchange_with method eu_bank.exchange_with(Money.new(100, "CAD"), "USD") # Money.new(80, "USD")
For performance reasons, you may prefer to read from a file instead. Furthermore, ECB publishes their rates daily. It makes sense to save the rates in a file to read from.
# saves the rates in a specified location eu_bank.save_rates("/some/file/location/exchange_rates.xml") # reads the rates from the specified location eu_bank.update_rates("/some/file/location/exchange_rates.xml") # exchange 100 CAD to USD as usual eu_bank.exchange_with(Money.new(100, "CAD"), "USD") # Money.new(80, "USD")
Note that the exchange method will be deprecated in Money version 3.2.0. eu_central_bank will follow suite and deprecate the method in version 0.2.0
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Copyright © 2010 Wong Liang Zan. See LICENSE for details.