Nobel

A small API client for the Nobel Prize API.

You can find out more on the official Developer Zone

There is also an API Console on API HQ

Dependencies

Nope.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nobel'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nobel

Usage

It is probably a good idea to take a look in specs

Prize

# All Nobel Prizes in 2010
Nobel::Prize.all year: 2010

# All Peace Prizes 
Nobel::Prize.all category: 'peace'

Laureate

The laureate data contains their prizes (and affiliations)

# Find a Nobel Laureate by ID
nelly = Nobel::Laureate.find 640

# Show the categories Nelly won
nelly.categories #=> ["literature"]

# Show the years Nelly won
nelly.years #=> [1966]

# Find all living female Nobel Laureates
#  (`query` is an alias to `all`)
Nobel::Laureate.query diedDate: '0000', gender: 'female'

Country

The country data only contains the country code and name.

# To return a list of all known countries
Nobel::Country.all

# To find a specific country
Nobel::Country.find 'FR' #=> #<Nobel::Country:0x007fda82b78220 @code="FR", @name="France">

# You can also find by name
Nobel::Country.find 'Germany', :name #=> #<Nobel::Country:0x007fda82b90b40 @code="DE", @name="Germany">

Configuration

Nothing needs to be configured out of the box, but you can change the api_host, api_version, json_parser, http_client and debug settings like this:

Nobel.configure do |c|
  c.api_host    = 'nobel.api'
  c.api_version = 'v42'
  c.json_parser = ->(json) { Oj.load(json) }
  c.http_client = MyOwnHttpClient
  c.debug       = true
end

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request