BigCheck

BigCheck allows you a convenient way to lookup HCP information against the Dutch BIG register. The code currently only allows you to look-up doctor based on their registration number. This might be extended in the future.

Currently, this hasn't been released as a gem yet. For installation, you can add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'big_check', git:"https://github.com/bo-oz/big_check.git"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Using the gem is pretty simple. You can call the check_by_big method directly after initiating the class:

client = BigCheck::Client.new
client.check_by_big(123455)

This makes the call to the webservice and initializes a new object of the Client class. You can check validity of the result by calling the valid? method on the HCP object, that is set to the hcp getter. If this equals to true, you can then access the available information.

client.hcp.valid?
# true

# currently the following information is available
client.hcp.birth_surname
client.hcp.mailing_name
client.hcp.prefix
client.hcp.initial
client.hcp.gender
client.hcp.profession
client.hcp.specialism

There's more information in the response, so you could access the response via:

client.hcp.response

# Or access the raw original reponse, which is a Savon response object
client.response

That's it! Enjoy.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/big_check. 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.

Everyone interacting in the BigCheck project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.