# Buzz Game data retrieval library v1.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buzz-game-data-retrieval-library-v1-0/97884>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 11, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buzz-game-data-retrieval-library-v1-0/97884 "2006-07-11T01:45:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![C\_Erler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@C\_Erler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/C_Erler)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/buzz-game-data-retrieval-library-v1-0/97884/1 "2006-07-11T01:45:38Z")

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The Yahoo Tech Buzz Game ([http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/](http://buzz.research.yahoo.com/)) is a  
fictional stock market for search queries.

Ruby library is available at [http://ruby.olathe.tv/buzz.rb](http://ruby.olathe.tv/buzz.rb)

Usage :

require ‘buzz’  
Buzz.show\_latest # Shows stocks sorted by dividend rate.

require ‘buzz’  
stocks = Buzz.data  
puts “Ruby on Rails price: $%04.2f” % stocks[‘Ruby on Rails’][:price]

(Note: This library loads mathn)