Fred

This is a Ruby wrapper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve Economic Data Fred API.

Installation

As a gem:

sudo gem install fred

As a plugin (in your Rails directory):

script/plugin install git://github.com/phuphighter/fred.git

Get a FRED API key

Usage

Instantiate a client

>> fred = Fred::Client.new(:api_key => 'your_api_key')

or configure once

>> Fred.configure do |config|
>>   config.api_key = 'your_api_key'
>> end
>> fred = Fred::Client.new

Examples

>> fred.category(nil, :category_id => '125')
=> <#Hashie::Mash categories=<#Hashie::Mash category=<#Hashie::Mash id="125" name="Trade Balance" parent_id="13">>>

>> fred.series(nil, :series_id => 'GNPC')
=> <#Hashie::Mash seriess=<#Hashie::Mash realtime_end="2008-07-29" realtime_start="2008-07-29" series=<#Hashie::Mash frequency="Annual" frequency_short="A" id="GNPCA" last_updated="2008-03-27 11:16:06-05" observation_end="2007-01-01" observation_start="1929-01-01" realtime_end="2008-07-29" realtime_start="2008-07-29" seasonal_adjustment="Not Applicable" seasonal_adjustment_short="NA" title="Real Gross National Product" units="Billions of Chained 2000 Dollars" units_short="Bil. of Chained 2000 $">>>

Copyright

Contact me if you have any suggestions and feel free to fork it!