Ruby/Finance is finally available for public consumption. I released version 0.1.0 yesterday evening to a deafening roar of silence.
Currently, it handles basic Yahoo Finance stuff, such as currency conversions and stock data retrieval from the American, Australian, Asian and European markets. As such, it replicates some of the functionality of Perl‘s Finance::Quote and is somewhat based on its design. In fact, whilst running unit tests, I was amused to find that I had even managed to faithfully port one of Finance::Quote‘s bugs.
For the foreseeable future, I’ll be adding more of Finance::Quote‘s functionality to provide Ruby users with the same range of features that the Perl crowd enjoy. After that, who knows?
The next module I’ll be implementing is one to retrieve stock data from Amsterdam’s AEX exchange.