ropenweather

Ropenweather :gem:

A Ruby Wrapper to the OpenWeatherMap API

This readme is available in pt-br

Installation

This gem is only available for development, so you can clone the repo and build it yourself:

git clone https://github.com/souzagab/ropenweather.git
cd ropenweather
bundle exec rake install

Or reference the repo in your Gemfile:

gem  'ropenweather', git:  'https://github.com/souzagab/ropenweather.git'

And then execute:

bundle install

Usage

This gem uses OpenWeatherMap API and you need to register and get it here.

Instance

To use this gem, you will need to create an instance of the Ropenweather::Client class, the constructor can receive four parameters: api_key, base_uri, lang, units.

param	required	default	accepted values
api_key	yes		api-key from openweathermap
base_uri	no	http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5	api url
lang	no	en	check the accepted values here
units	no	metric	standard metric imperial

Example

client = Ropenweather::Client.new(api_key:'y0ur-4pi-k3y',lang:'pt_br')

Today's Current Weather

Returns an hash

client = Ropenweather::Client.new(api_key:'y0ur-4pi-k3y',lang:'pt_br')
client.get_weather(city:'London')

Forecast (5 days )

Returns an hash with an list of forecasts

client = Ropenweather::Client.new(api_key:'y0ur-4pi-k3y',lang:'pt_br')
response = client.get_weather(city:'London', action:'forecast')
response[:list] # Array of forecasts

Development

After cloning, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Contributing

This project is at the beginning of development and has a lot to be improved, contributions are welcome, and here is a list of possible improvements:

• Wrap the api response in a class
• Improve error handling
• Validate method params ( format )

And more..

License

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