A Ruby wrapper for Openexchangerates API. Open Exchange Rates provides a simple, lightweight and portable JSON API with live and historical foreign exchange (forex) rates, via a simple and easy-to-integrate API, in JSON format.
For more information about the Openexchangerates API, visit:
https://docs.openexchangerates.org/
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'openexchangerates_data'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install openexchangerates_data
First, get your APP ID from Open Exchange Rates
Create a Openexchangerates client using your API ID as follows:
rate = OpenexchangeratesData::Client.new("API_ID")You can then use that client to get live and historical foreign exchange (forex) rates:
rate.latestor
rate.historical("2016-12-30")Get a JSON list of all currency symbols available from the Open Exchange Rates API, along with their full names, for use in your integration:
rate.currenciesBug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/balyam/openexchangerates_data. 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.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.