Yelp::Business

This is the simple data model encapsulating Yelp Business data received over Fusion V3 API.

First we need to configure the access token:

You can set the token either prorammatiacally (in ruby), or usin an external environment variable YELP_ACCESS_TOKEN.

export YELP_ACCESS_TOKEN='5eUZNOPOlWw9oQHowSKaYcWQK......'

Or, in ruby:

# Set the token either directly on +Yelp+ module:
Yelp.access_token = '5eUZNOPOlWw9oQHowSKaYcWQK....'

# or using #configure method on Yelp::Business
Yelp::Business.configure do |config|
  config.access_token = token
end

Next, we'll fetch and cache business info. In your code, when you have business id or URL:

require 'yelp/business'

url  = 'https://www.yelp.com/biz/gary-danko-san-francisco'
name = Yelp::Business.business_id_from(url) # => 'gary-danko-san-francisco'

# initialize the object, and also fetch the data from Yelp
business  = Yelp::Business.new(name).get

# You can now call methods on the instance to access it's attributes:
business.name   # => 'Gary Danko'
business.rating #=> 4.5

You can also cache the results of the call:

cache_key  = "yelp.business.#{business_id}"
business   = Rails.cache.fetch(cache_key) do 
  Yelp::Business.new(business_id).get
end
business.name #=> 'Gary Danko'

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'yelp-business'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install yelp-business

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/pioneerworks/yelp-business.

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