Whowas is a simple tool for chaining third-party API searches together. It is called "Whowas" because it was initially developed to answer the question, "Who was the person (username) using this IP address at that time?"
Whowas can be used to match any piece of data with another through an arbitrary number of API searches, where the result of each search becomes the input to the next search.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'whowas'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install whowas
Please see the wiki for basic usage and other documentation.
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/TuftsUniversity/whowas.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.