Formerly known as rfcbib.

ietfbib is a Ruby gem that search and fetch standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), including RFCs.

The standards scrape form https://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'ietfbib'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ietfbib

Usage

Search document

item = IETFBib::RfcBibliography.search 'RFC 8341'
=> #<IsoBibItem::BibliographicItem:0x007fdb0803a0f8>

# Return nil if document doesn't exist.
IETFBib::RfcBibliography.search '1111'
=> nil

Serialization

item.to_xml
=>"<bibitem id='RFC8341'>
  <title format='plain' language='en' script='Latn'>Network Configuration Access Control Model</title>
  <link type='src'>https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8341</link>
  <date type='published'>
    <on>2018</on>
  </date>
  <contributor>
    <role type='author'/>
    <person>
      <name>
        <completename language='en'>A. Bierman</completename>
      </name>
      <affilation>
        <organization>
          <name/>
          <abbreviation>IETF</abbreviation>
        </organization>
      </affilation>
    </person>
  </contributor>
  <contributor>
    <role type='author'/>
    <person>
      <name>
        <completename language='en'>M. Bjorklund</completename>
      </name>
      <affilation>
        <organization>
          <name/>
          <abbreviation>IETF</abbreviation>
        </organization>
      </affilation>
    </person>
  </contributor>
  <language>en</language>
</bibitem>"

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at USERNAME/ietfbib.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).