forecast_io

forecast.io API wrapper in Ruby.

Installation

gem install forecast_io

or in your Gemfile

gem 'forecast_io'

Make sure you require the library.

require 'forecast_io'

You will need to set your API key before you can make requests to the forecast.io API.

ForecastIO.configure do |configuration|
  configuration.api_key = 'this-is-your-api-key'
end

Alternatively:

ForecastIO.api_key = 'this-is-your-api-key'

You can then make requests to the ForecastIO.forecast(latitude, longitude, options = {}) method.

Valid options in the options hash are:

:time - Unix time in seconds.
:params - Query parameters that can contain the following:
- :jsonp - JSONP callback.
- :units - Return the API response in SI units, rather than the default Imperial units.
- :exclude - "Exclude some number of data blocks from the API response. This is useful for reducing latency and saving cache space. [blocks] should be a comma-delimeted list (without spaces) of any of the following: currently, minutely, hourly, daily, alerts, flags." (via v2 docs)

Get the current forecast:

forecast = ForecastIO.forecast(37.8267, -122.423)

Get the current forecast at a given time:

forecast = ForecastIO.forecast(37.8267, -122.423, time: Time.new(2013, 3, 11).to_i)

Get the current forecast and use SI units:

forecast = ForecastIO.forecast(37.8267, -122.423, params: { units: 'si' })

The forecast(...) method will return a response that you can interact with in a more-friendly way, such as:

forecast = ForecastIO.forecast(37.8267, -122.423)
forecast.latitude
forecast.longitude

Please refer to the forecast.io API documentation for more information on the full response properties.

The HTTP requests are made with Faraday, which uses Net::HTTP by default. Changing the adapter is easy. We will use typhoeus as an example.

Make sure to include the typhoeus gem in your Gemfile:

gem 'typhoeus'

require 'typhoeus/adapters/faraday'

Faraday.default_adapter = :typhoeus

Alternatively:

require 'typhoeus/adapters/faraday'

ForecastIO.connection = Faraday.new do |builder|
  builder.adapter :typhoeus
end

You can also customise the default parameters passed through on each API call:

ForecastIO.default_params = {units: 'si'}

# or

ForecastIO.configure do |configuration|
  configuration.default_params = {units: 'si'}
end

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