Weather-API
A Ruby wrapper for the Yahoo! Weather XML RSS feed.
Installation
[sudo] gem install weather-api
Description
Weather-API provides an object-oriented interface to the Yahoo! Weather XML RSS feed service.
Details on the service can be found here.
Usage
A simple example:
require 'rubygems'
require 'weather-api'
# look up WOEID via http://weather.yahoo.com; enter location by city
# name or zip and WOEID is at end of resulting page url.
response = Weather.lookup(9830, Weather::Units::CELSIUS)
print <<EOT
#{response.title}
#{response.condition.temp} degrees
#{response.condition.text}
EOT
This produces:
Conditions for Ladysmith, CA at 5:00 pm PDT
13 degrees
Cloudy
Lookup via location name
response = Weather.lookup_by_location('San Francisco, CA', Weather::Units::FAHRENHEIT)
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2012 Andrew Stewart. See LICENSE file for more details.