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A gem for working with BBC Radio Networks, this gem exposes network names, IDs and url keys and is intended as a single, up to date, source of truth.
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Development

~> 1.10
~> 10.0
~> 3.0
 Project Readme

BbcRadioNetworks

This gem was created to aid in the testing of the BBC Radio websites, but it is made available to all who might find uses for it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'bbc_radio_networks'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install bbc_radio_networks

Usage

List all networks

BbcRadioNetworks.list_networks

Returns an array of the official names of all the BBC networks.

Look up a network key

BbcRadioNetworks.get_network_key('BBC Radio Kent')

Returns the BBC ID of the network supplied, in this example "bbc_radio_kent"

Look up a network ID

BbcRadioNetworks.get_network_id('BBC Radio Kent')

Returns the BBC ID of the network supplied, in this example "radiokent"

Get a random network name

BbcRadioNetworks.random_network_name('nationals')

Returns a network name of the specified type. Options are 'nationals', 'nations' or 'locals'. If no argument is supplied it will randomise the type it returns.

Development

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.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lehmam03/bbc_radio_networks.

License

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