Gem for accesing business information from ARES database.

ARES is the Czech business database maintained by Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. This gem helps to retrieve data provided by this database. Currently ruby-ares supports only retrieval of basic information and addresses for business contacts by IČ (Czech business contact identification number).

Install the gem and require it:

$ gem install ruby-ares

require 'ruby-ares'

This will need libxml2 (with header files) installed. On Fedora:

su -c 'yum install libxml2-devel'

To get an ARES subjet/party by IČ:

subject = RubyARES::Subject.get(74948440)

And then:

subject => #<RubyARES::Subject:0x000000013ac2c0 @ico="74948440", @ic="74948440", @dic=nil, @name="Josef Stříbný", @company=nil, @status=nil, @addresses=[#<RubyARES::Address:0x000000013ac978 @id="406358731", @street="Nádražní", @postcode="74727", @city="Kobeřice", @city_part="Kobeřice", @house_number="721", @house_number_type="1", @orientational_number=nil>], @updated_at=nil, @legal_form="Fyzická osoba podnikající dle živnostenského zákona nezapsaná v obchodním rejstříku">
subject.name => Josef Stříbný
subject.ic => 74948440
subject.address => #<RubyARES::Address:0x007fc691a776a0 @id="406358731", @street="Nádražní", @postcode="74727", @city="Kobeřice", @city_part="Kobeřice", @house_number="721", @house_number_type="1", @orientational_number=nil>

ruby-ares will raise either RubyARES::Parser::ARESDatabaseError or RubyARES::Parser::ParseError if the ARES database responds with an error or the XML doesn't contain the information you are looking for.

If the connection to the ARES database can't be established ruby-ares raises RubyARES::HTTP::ConnectionError.

ruby-ares is written and maintained by Josef Strzibny.

See LICENSE file.

Contributions are welcome!

Here are the list of current contributors:

• Jindřich Skupa