Bank of Tanzania Historic Exchange Rates

Wraps a simple scraper to retrieve the historic exchange rates for Tanzanian Shillings (TZS). Returns the average (between buy and sell) rates for yesterday or any day specified and supported by the Bank of Tanzania.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

  gem 'bank_of_tanzania'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

  $ gem install bank_of_tanzania

  xe = BankOfTanzania::HistoricRates.new as_of: Date.new(2015, 10, 24)
  xe.import! # => true

import! returns true if rates have been found. Might also throw HTTP errors. It will also return false when requesting rates for weekend days.

  xe.rate('TZS', 'EUR') # => 2105.625

Get all available currencies:

  xe.currencies # => ['KES', 'RWF', 'USD', 'EUR', … ]

Get all rates

  xe.rates # => { 'KES'=>2105.625, 'RWF'=>288.49, … }

The author of this gem is not affiliated with the National Bank of Rwanda.

GPLv3, see LICENSE file

The Software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of condition, uninterrupted use, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.