class CFF::Entity

An Entity can represent different types of entities, e.g., a publishing company, or conference. Like a Person, an Entity might have a number of roles, such as author, contact, editor, etc.

Entity implements all of the fields listed in the CFF standard. All fields are simple strings and can be set as such. A field which has not been set will return the empty string. The simple fields are (with defaults in parentheses):

address
alias
city
country
date_end - Note: returns a Date object
date_start - Note: returns a Date object
email
fax
location
name
orcid
post_code
region
tel
website

Public Class Methods

new(name) → Entity click to toggle source

new(name) { |entity| block } → Entity

Create a new Entity with the supplied name.

Calls superclass method

# File lib/cff/entity.rb, line 57
def initialize(param)
  super()

  if param.is_a?(Hash)
    @fields = param
  else
    @fields = {}
    @fields['name'] = param
  end

  yield self if block_given?
end