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Yahoo Finance currency conversion method in Ruby (for prototyping use, budget but works)
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yahoo-finance-csv-curl.rb
require 'csv'
# Cheers to Greg on StackOverflow
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/181990/programmatically-access-currency-exchange-rates
class Yahoo
def self.fetch(code = 'AUDUSD')
csv = `curl -q "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=#{code}=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv"`
values = CSV.parse(csv)
values[0][1]
end
end
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