Class: PeriodicTable::ApiResponse

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/periodic_table/periodic_table_api.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(result) ⇒ ApiResponse

Returns a new instance of ApiResponse.



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# File 'lib/periodic_table/periodic_table_api.rb', line 19

def initialize(result)
  xml = Nokogiri::XML.parse(result)
  @data = xml.xpath("NewDataSet/Table").first.element_children
end

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method

#method_missing(method) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/periodic_table/periodic_table_api.rb', line 24

def method_missing(method)
  method = method.to_s
  # the webservicex api mispells "electronegativity"
  method = 'eletronegativity' if method == 'electronegativity'
  element = @data.find { |e| e.name =~ /#{method.gsub('_', '')}/i }
  element.text if element
end