Bloomberg Currency

Bloomberg Currency provides an easy-to-use API to pull currency exchange rates from the Bloomberg sites. If you would like to test out this gem before including it into your project, feel free to clone it, bundle it and run bin/console for an interactive prompt.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bloomberg_currency'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bloomberg_currency

Usage

You just basically need to create a new instance of the Site object and then call the quote method on it, passing the <currency_from> and <currency_to> as parameters. Like this:

site = BloombergCurrency::API::Site.new
site.quote 'USD', 'EUR'
# => => #<BloombergCurrency::Models::Quote:0x007fdb95161098 @price=#<BigDecimal:7fdb95189930,'0.921E0',9(18)>, @price_datetime=#<DateTime: 2016-11-11T16:47:00-05:00 ((2457704j,78420s,0n),-18000s,2299161j)>, @quote_details={:open=>"0.9180", :day_range=>"0.9156 - 0.9233", :previous_close=>"0.9180", :"52wk_range"=>"0.8612 - 0.9496", :ytd_return=>"0.10%"}>

As you could notice it will return a Quote object. This object contains three main attributes: price, price_datetime and quote_details. Out of those three attributes, the quote_details attribute contains a hash, here's an example: {:open=>"0.9180", :day_range=>"0.9156 - 0.9233", :previous_close=>"0.9180", :"52wk_range"=>"0.8612 - 0.9496", :ytd_return=>"0.10%"}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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.

If you would like to contribute please fork the repository, make your changes and create a PR.

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/sebasjimenez10/bloomberg_currency. 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

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