OpenActive Client Library for Ruby

A basic Ruby client library for working with data published as part of the OpenActive project.

Specifically the code provides support for:

• Listing all datasets that have been published as part of the project
• Fetching and harvesting a Realtime Paged Data Exchange (RPDE) containing opportunity data
• Identifying whether a feed conforms to the RPDE specification and/or the Modelling Opportunity Data specification

The project also provides some simple command-line tools to help to illustrate its use.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'openactive'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install openactive

Usage Examples

The code includes a couple of example scripts in the bin directory that illustrate usage of the library to fetch metadata and page through feeds.

See:

• bin/oa_list.rb -- list all published datasets
• bin/oa_status.rb -- create a CSV file summarising current status of published datasets
• bin/oa_sample.rb -- dump a random "modified" entry from a feed
• bin/oa_harvest.rb -- harvest all data from a feed, storing results in a directory

For a slightly longer example, take a look at this tutorial on Indexing Opportunity Data Using Elastic Search

Handling of items in a feed

The library doesn't currently provide support for manipulating individual items in an RPDE feed. It just returns the individual items as Ruby hashes that can then be manipulated by the calling code.