global_weather

GlobalWeather

Global Weather SOAP service ruby wrapper.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'global_weather'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install global_weather

This gem was tested on ruby 1.9.3p327

Usage

Basically GlobalWeather gem provides 2 classes Country (wraps GetCitiesByCountry soap method call) and Weather (wraps GetWeather method call)

To get cities by country (e.g. Germany)

  country = GlobalWeather::Country.new 'Germany'
 
  country.cities # returns an array of strings

In order to get current weather (e.g. country 'Germany', city 'Berlin')

  weather = GlobalWeather::Weather.new 'Germany', 'Berlin' 
   
  puts weather.time[:UTC]

  puts weather.temperature[:C]

  puts weather.temperature[:F]

  puts weather.pressure[:Hg]

  puts weather.pressure[:hPa]

See full list of attributes

  GlobalWeather::Weather::ATTRIBUTES

Can it be simplier?

Test

Command

$ rake

or

$ rake test

will run all tests

Configuration

There is only one client instance shared among all instances of GlobalWeather Weather and Country objects.

GlobalWeather::Client.configure do |config| config.log false config.proxy 'http://my_company_internal_proxy' end

options provided this way will be passed futher down to Savon.client. See full list of all at savon documentation