geckoboard-ruby
Ruby client library for Geckoboard (https://developer.geckoboard.com/api-reference/ruby).
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'geckoboard-ruby'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install geckoboard-ruby
Usage
Require the gem
require 'geckoboard'
Ping to authenticate
Verify that your API key is valid and that you can reach the Geckoboard API.
client = Geckoboard.client('222efc82e7933138077b1c2554439e15')
client.ping # => true
Find or create
Verify an existing dataset or create a new one.
dataset = client.datasets.find_or_create('sales.gross', fields: [
Geckoboard::MoneyField.new(:cost, name: 'Cost', currency_code: 'USD'),
Geckoboard::DateTimeField.new(:timestamp, name: 'Time'),
Geckoboard::NumberField.new(:amount, name: 'Amount', optional: true)
], unique_by: [:timestamp])
Available field types:
DateField
DateTimeField
NumberField
PercentageField
StringField
MoneyField
unique_by
is an optional array of one or more field names whose values will be unique across all your records.
Delete
Delete a dataset and all data therein.
dataset.delete # => true
Delete a dataset with a given id.
client.datasets.delete('sales.gross') # => true
Put
Replace all data in the dataset.
dataset.put([
{
timestamp: DateTime.new(2016, 1, 2, 12, 0, 0),
amount: 40900
},
{
timestamp: DateTime.new(2016, 1, 3, 12, 0, 0),
amount: 16400
},
])
Post
Append data to a dataset.
dataset.post([
{
timestamp: DateTime.new(2016, 1, 2, 12, 0, 0),
amount: 40900
},
{
timestamp: DateTime.new(2016, 1, 3, 12, 0, 0),
amount: 16400
},
], delete_by: :timestamp)
delete_by
is an optional field by which to order the truncation of records once the maximum record count has been reached. By default the oldest records (by insertion time) will be removed.
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. Then, 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
to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/geckoboard/geckoboard-ruby/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