Local Weather pulls together a few other gems.

When installed, it will:

• query a geoip database to get a close approximate location of the end user (or at least the last proxy that they went through)

• figure out their local time

• figure out their current season

• figure out their current light conditions (night/dawn/morning/midday/afternoon/evening/dusk)

• query a weather API service to get:

  • the local temperature

  • the local weather condition as a code

  • the local weather condition in words

• It also normalises the weather condition output into ‘snow’, ‘clear’,‘partly cloudy’,‘overcast’,‘drizzle’,‘rain’,‘heavy rain’,‘thunder’

Include the module into a controller, and all of the above will available as instance variables in your views:

* @lw_local_time
* @lw_season
* @lw_light_condition
* @lw_temperature
* @lw_weather_code
* @lw_full_weather_condition
* @lw_weather_condition
* @location - which is an instance of Geocoder::Result, it provides the following data:
   * result.latitude - float
   * result.longitude - float
   * result.coordinates - array of the above two
   * result.address - string
   * result.city - string
   * result.state - string
   * result.state_code - string
   * result.postal_code - string
   * result.country - string
   * result.country_code - string

At the moment, it is hooked up to use geocoder as the geoip lookup, and yahoo_weatherman for the weather. In the future, I’ll set it up to make this easily configurable, but if you know what you’re doing, just fork the repo and substitute your own favourite gems in place.

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet.

• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it.

• Fork the project.

• Start a feature/bugfix branch.

• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.

• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright © 2013 Jules Copeland. See LICENSE.txt for further details.