henkm / museumkaart

Ruby gem for querying museums in the museumjaarkaart database

Museumkaart

Query the museumjaarkaart database for museums in The Netherlands. The is fetched from a xml feed from museumjaarkaart.nl.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'museumkaart'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install museumkaart

Usage

For now, this gem has limitited search functionality:

• location based (latitude, longitude, distance)
• query based
• combined

Examples

# Find van Gogh museum
@museums = Museumkaart.search(keyword: "Van Gogh Museum")

# Find museums in a certain area
@museums = Museumkaart.search(latitude: "52.222687", latitude: "5.483039", distance: 3)

@museums.first # => #<Museumkaart::Museum:0x007fe1532d9178 @id=10455, @title="NIJKERK", @sub_title="Museum Nijkerk", @description="x", @detail_url="/museum/Museum+Nijkerk/Museum+Nijkerk.aspx">

Contributing

1. Fork it
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 new Pull Request