LlmGateway

Provide nuts and bolts for LLM APIs. The goal is to provide a unified interface for multiple LLM provider API's; And Enable developers to have as much control as they want.

You can use the clients directly, Or you can use the gateway to have interop between clients.

Supported Providers

Anthropic, OpenAi, Groq

Installation

Add the gem to your application's Gemfile:

bundle add llm_gateway

Or install it yourself:

gem install llm_gateway

Usage

Basic Chat

require 'llm_gateway'

# Simple text completion
result = LlmGateway::Client.chat(
  'claude-sonnet-4-20250514',
  'What is the capital of France?'
)

# With system message
result = LlmGateway::Client.chat(
  'gpt-4',
  'What is the capital of France?',
  system: 'You are a helpful geography teacher.'
)

Sample Application

See the file search bot example for a complete working application that demonstrates:

  • Creating reusable Prompt and Tool classes
  • Handling conversation transcripts with tool execution
  • Building an interactive terminal interface

To run the sample:

cd sample/claude_code_clone
ruby run.rb

The bot will prompt for your model and API key, then allow you to ask natural language questions about finding files and searching directories.

Response Format

All providers return responses in a consistent format:

{
  choices: [
    {
      content: [
        { type: 'text', text: 'The capital of France is Paris.' }
      ],
      finish_reason: 'end_turn',
      role: 'assistant'
    }
  ],
  usage: {
    input_tokens: 15,
    output_tokens: 8,
    total_tokens: 23
  },
  model: 'claude-sonnet-4-20250514',
  id: 'msg_abc123'
}

Error Handling

LlmGateway provides consistent error handling across all providers:

begin
  result = LlmGateway::Client.chat('invalid-model', 'Hello')
rescue LlmGateway::Errors::UnsupportedModel => e
  puts "Unsupported model: #{e.message}"
rescue LlmGateway::Errors::AuthenticationError => e
  puts "Authentication failed: #{e.message}"
rescue LlmGateway::Errors::RateLimitError => e
  puts "Rate limit exceeded: #{e.message}"
end

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test 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 the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/Hyper-Unearthing/llm_gateway. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the LlmGateway project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.