Currencylayer

This gem extends Money::Bank::VariableExchange of gem money and gives you access to the current exchange rates using currencylayer.com

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Features

supports 168 currencies
precision of rates up to 6 digits after point
uses fast and reliable json api
average response time < 20ms
supports caching currency rates

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'currencylayer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install currencylayer

Usage

First, you should to register account on currencylayer.com and get your personal access_key.

require 'money'
require 'money/bank/currencylayer'

# (optional)
# set the seconds after than the current rates are automatically expired
# by default, they never expire
Money::Bank::Currencylayer.ttl_in_seconds = 7200 # 2 hours ttl

# set careful mode - each rate stores with created_at time to cache and will be flushed
# only if their time is out. If you get exception while request new rate, bank will
# return cached value if present
# by default false
Money::Bank::Currencylayer.rates_careful = true

# create new bank instance
bank = Money::Bank::Currencylayer.new

# create new bank instance with block specifying rounding of exchange result
bank = Money::Bank::Currencylayer.new {|n| n.round(4)} # round result to 4 digits after point

# specify your access_key from currencylayer.com
bank.access_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

# set default bank to instance
Money.default_bank = bank

Also you can setup Currencylayer as default_bank for money-rails gem in config/initializers/money.rb

require 'money/bank/currencylayer'
MoneyRails.configure do |config|

  bank = Money::Bank::Currencylayer.new
  bank.access_key = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
  config.default_bank = bank

end

An AccessError will be thrown if access_key was not specified.

An RequestError will be thrown if currencylayer.com api returns error on api request.

Refs

Created using VariableExchange implementation and using google_currency basics.

More implementations:

Contributing

Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/currencylayer/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request

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