• http://github.com/apohllo/CKAN

'CKAN' is a Ruby client of the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network.

• The project is in pre-alpha state.
• CKAN packages REST API wrapper.
• CKAN resources class.
• Query API for CKAN packages.

'CKAN' is a Ruby client for the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network. It provides an object oriented interface for the repository based on the REST API of CKAN.

The gem is available at rubygems.org, so you can install it with:

$ gem install ckan

  require 'ckan'

  # Optionally, set the base API url
  CKAN::API.api_url = "...your CKAN API URL ..."

  # Action API http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html#action-api-reference

  # API functions for searching for and getting data from CKAN.
  CKAN::Action.action_get("organization_list", { "all_fields" => "true" })

  # API functions for adding data to CKAN.
  CKAN::Action.action_create("resource_create", api_key, {"name" => "name", "package_id" => "package", "url" => "http://ckan.org" })
  # If :upload is present it will upload th file eg. :upload => File.new("file.csv)

  # get all CKAN packages
  packages = CKAN::Package.find

  # query for CKAN packages
  packages = CKAN::Package.find(:tags => ["lod", "government"], :groups => "lodcloud")

  # get the name of the package (this is a lazy call to the REST API)
  packages.first.name

  # get the resources of the package
  packages.first.resources

  # query for CKAN groups
  groups = CKAN::Group.find

  # get the description of a group
  groups.first.description

  # get the list of packages inside a group
  groups.first.packages

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