LSE Courses

A gem for accessing course data from the London School of Economics's Calendar.

I'm planning to use this for a project, but I'm not 100% sure what yet - perhaps something along the line of YalePlus's Bluebook+.

Usage

Add the gem to your Gemfile, then run bundle install:

# Install from RubyGems
source "http://rubygems.org"
gem 'lse_courses', '0.0.3'

# Install the latest version via Git
gem 'lse_courses', git: 'git@github.com:timrogers/lse_courses.git'

You might need to add a call to require 'lse_courses' in your code, dependent on your setup.

You can retrieve an array with every course offered at LSE:

# You can just fetch the most basic information - name, code and type (e.g. undergraduate)
courses = LSECourses::Course.all

# ...or you can grab everything at once - this will take a long time
courses = LSECourses::Course.all(preload: true)

courses.each do |course|
  puts "#{course.code} - #{course.name}"

  # Fetch a more detailed attribute, and we'll grab all of them for you
  # and store them if you didn't preload the data originally
  puts course.department

  # LSE records include surveys on courses - stored in #survey on the object
  puts "#{course.survey.recommended_by}% of students recommend this cause"
end

...or you can fetch a specific course by code:

course = LSECourses::Course.find("LSE100")
puts course.name

# All the data is loaded straight up, since there's only one course to fetch
puts course.department

Upcoming features that should be added are some kind of search (e.g. for finding a course by name) and a way to find courses by type (e.g. undergraduate, graduate)...

Contributing

Fork it
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

lse_courses

Runtime

LSE Courses

Usage

Contributing