Dolarblue

Description

Query Argentine Peso vs US$ exchange values with particular interest in official vs. street (blue) reference prices.

dolarblue is a command-line tool to query AR$ vs US$ exchange values.

The term blue denotes an important difference between the real value of Argentine local currency (the argentine peso) versus the official value currently unreacheable to the general public.

Installation

$ gem install dolarblue or add to your Gemfile this line: gem 'dolarblue' then run bundle install

Usage (command-line)

Query latest values

$ dolarblue

Sample result:

Obtaining latest AR$ vs US$ exchange values...Done.

- Official.......: 5.02 / 5.10  (Updated 2 hours ago)
- Dolar "Tarjeta":  n/a / 6.12  (Updated 2 hours ago)
- Blue...........: 8.44 / 8.75  (Updated 2 hours and 33 minutes ago)
- Gap "tarjeta"..: 43%
- Gap (official).: 72%

Information sources:
Official.......: https://twitter.com/cotizacionhoyar/status/314454371796660225
Blue...........: https://twitter.com/DolarBlue/status/314445874556190720

Contributing

Fork it.
Make your feature addition or bug fix and create your feature branch.
Update the Change Log.
Add specs/tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, create a new Pull Request.
Check that your pull request passes the build.

License

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for further details.

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