TheCommunityFarm

This RubyGem provides a way to access the contents of various veg boxes from The Community Farm in your Ruby programs. I use it to generate an XML feed of the various boxes which I can then plug into an IFTTT recipe which emails me when the weekly box contents is updated.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'the_community_farm'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install the_community_farm

require 'the_community_farm'
require 'open-uri'

organic_boxes = TheCommunityFarm::OrganicBoxes.new(html: open('https://www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/boxes/box_display.php').read)

organic_boxes.each do |box|
  puts box
  puts
  box.items.each { |item| puts "- #{item}" }
  puts
end

Which will output:

All For One

- Potatoes (Valor) (Somerset)
- Carrots (Dirty) (Somerset)
- Cauliflower (Green) (Somerset)
- Cabbage (Pointed) (Cornwall)
- Leeks (Our Field)
- Sweetcorn (Somerset)
- Chillies (Our Field)

Family Provider Large

- Potatoes (Valor) (Somerset)
- Carrots (Dirty) (Somerset)
- Parsnips (Somerset)
- Cauliflower (Green) (Somerset)
- Brussel Sprout Tops (Somerset)
- Cabbage (White) (Our Field)
- Butternut Squash (Somerset)
- Leeks (our field)
- Sweetcorn (Somerset)
- Beetroot (Somerset)
- Apples  (Hereford)
- Bananas (Ecuador)
- Oranges (SPA)

Family Provider Small

- Potatoes (Valor) (Somerset)
- Carrots (Dirty) (Somerset)
- Parsnips (Somerset)
- Cauliflower (Green) (Somerset)
- Leeks (our field)
- Sweetcorn (Somerset)
- Onions (Somerset)
- Chard (Rainbow) (Our Field)
- Chillies (Our field)
- Apples (Hereford)
- Bananas (Ecuador)
- Oranges (SPA)

[snip]

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test 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/communityfarm/the_community_farm.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.