More information about IRUS-UK can be found at [http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/](http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/). In summary the IRUS-UK service is designed to provide article-level usage statistics for Institutional Repositories. This gem was developed for use with a Hydra repository [http://projecthydra.org/(http://projecthydra.org/)], but it can be used with any other Rails based web application.