Module: Weather

Defined in:
lib/weather-api.rb,
lib/weather-api/wind.rb,
lib/weather-api/image.rb,
lib/weather-api/units.rb,
lib/weather-api/utils.rb,
lib/weather-api/version.rb,
lib/weather-api/forecast.rb,
lib/weather-api/location.rb,
lib/weather-api/response.rb,
lib/weather-api/astronomy.rb,
lib/weather-api/condition.rb,
lib/weather-api/atmosphere.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: Astronomy, Atmosphere, Condition, Forecast, Image, Location, Response, Units, Utils, Wind

Constant Summary collapse

ROOT =

Yahoo! Weather info endpoint

"http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql"
VERSION = 
"1.1.1"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.lookup(woeid, units = 'f') ⇒ Object

Public: Looks up current weather information using WOEID

woeid - Int - Where On Earth IDentifier – unique ID for

location to get weather data for. To find
a WOEID, refer to Yahoo!'s documentation
at http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

units - String - whether to retrieve data in Farenheit

or Celsius. Defaults to Farenheit

Returns a Weather::Response object containing forecast



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# File 'lib/weather-api.rb', line 33

def lookup woeid, units = 'f'
  url = ROOT
  url += "?q=select%20*%20from%20weather.forecast%20"
  url += "where%20woeid%3D#{woeid}%20and%20u%3D'#{units}'&format=json"

  doc = get_response url
  Response.new woeid, url, doc
end