Alexandrite GEM

Alexandrite is a gem that fetches book's data by ISBN number and other parameters from the Google API and OCLC API. It's intended to help librarians and bibliophiles to manage their bookshelves and classify their books.

With Alexandrite, it's

Easy to get all information by ISBN and other parameters
Structure data

Features

Retrieves Book data from Google API and OCLC API
Suggest a Dewey Decimal Classification or a Library of Congress Classification with OCLC Data.
Add data to a virtual collection

Version

0.0.1

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alexandrite'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as globally:

gem install alexandrite

Usage

Currently, Alexandrite is divided on four modules: Alexandrite, Alexandrite::Book, Alexandrite::GoogleAPI, and AlexandriteOCLCAPI. Require Alexandrite if you want to use an integration of all the modules, or use each module separately.

Examples

book = Alexandrite.create_book("0262033844")

book.title
#=> "Introduction to Algorithms"

book.description
#=> "A new edition of the essential text and professional reference, with substantial newmaterial on such topics as vEB trees, multithreaded algorithms, dynamic programming, and edge-baseflow."

book.publisher
#=> "MIT Press"

book.published_date
#=> <Date: 2001-02-03 ...>

book.isbn_10
#=> 0262033844

book.isbn_13
#=> 978026203384

Methods

title                >> Returns Book's title as string
description          >> Returns the description of book as string
isbn(isbn_number)    >> Set new isbn
fetch                >> Call to Google Book API and process book information on provided ISBN
authors              >> Return authors' name as comma separated as string
authors_as_array     >> Return authors' name as ruby array. If no book is associated with ISBN number,
                        then it return empty array
publisher            >> Return publisher name as string
isbn_10              >> Return 10 digit ISBN numbers as string
isbn_13              >> Return 13 digit ISBN numbers as string
categories           >> Return category names as comma separated as string
categories_as_array  >> Return category names as ruby array. If no book is associated with ISBN number,
                        then it return empty array
thumbnail_small      >> Return the link of small thumnail
thumbnail            >> Return the link of standard thumnail
preview_link         >> Return the link for previewing the book
page_count           >> Return page count as integer
published_date       >> Return the published date as Ruby object

Development

Want to contribute? Great!

Fork it ( https://github.com/eftakhairul/gisbn/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

Author

J. P. Pérez-Tejada

Gem inspired on GISBN. Special greetings to:

Matt Seeberger Eftakhairul Islam

License

MIT