hrt_bus

Ruby gem for real-time Hampton Roads Transit bus location data

Installation

gem install hrt_bus

Examples

A Bus as a Ruby ActiveModel object

HrtBus::Rider.new(:route_id => "20", :direction => "inbound").bus

#<HrtBus::Bus:0x1028d40c0
  attr_accessor :direction = "inbound",
  attr_accessor :id = "2021",
  attr_accessor :lat = "36.8597919",
  attr_accessor :lon = "-76.2845680",
  attr_accessor :route_id = "20",
  attr_accessor :time = Sat, 03 Mar 2012 23:24:28 +0000,
>

Is my bus late?

HrtBus::Rider.new(:route_id => "20", :direction => "inbound").bus.late?

Send yourself a SMS or Tweet when your bus is close!

(1..15).each do |i|

  rider =  HrtBus::Rider.new(:route_id  => "2",
                             :direction => "inbound",
                             :lat       => "36.870347",
                             :lon       => "-76.301163" )

  if rider.bus.present? && rider.distance_to_bus <= 3
    # Do something really cool like send a SMS or Tweet!
  end

  sleep 30

end

Generate a static Google Map for a bus

HrtBus::Rider.new(:route_id => "15", :direction => "outbound").bus.static_map

A collection of HRT buses as JSON

HrtBus::Bus.active_buses.to_json

[
   {
      "bus":{
         "direction":"inbound",
         "id":"1218",
         "lat":"37.0145065",
         "lon":"-76.3646452",
         "route_id":"103",
         "time":"2012-03-03T23:26:20+00:00"
      }
   },
   {
      "bus":{
         "direction":"outbound",
         "id":"2026",
         "lat":"36.8537111",
         "lon":"-76.1759363",
         "route_id":"20",
         "time":"2012-03-03T23:26:29+00:00"
      }
   }
]
...

Contributing to hrt_bus

• 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

Copyright (c) Brian Douglas Smith. See LICENSE.txt for further details.