CompaniesHouse

The CompaniesHouse gem provides a wrapper around the Companies House API. Two methods are currently provided. One to search the Companies House database against a given string. The second to retrieve company information given a company number.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'companies_house_api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install companies_house_api

An API key is required which can be obtained by registering with Companies House.

Configure the gem using a block in an initializer:

CompaniesHouse.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = "your_api_key_here"
end

Planning ahead for future development, there are two classes, Search and Company Information.

To search for company information, configure as above and then instantiate a new instance of the Search class.

ch = CompaniesHouse::Search.new
ch.search_companies("captured sparks")

This returns a plain ruby object with two attributes: a count of how many results are returned for the search and an array of those results.

To retrieve company information:

ch = CompaniesHouse::CompanyInformation.new
ch.company_profile("07577596")
ch.registered_office_address("07577596")

Again, these return plain ruby objects with attributes as shown in the API documentation for the named methods.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/companies_house_api/fork )
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 a new Pull Request