Disclaimer

This library is not maintained. It may not work as expected.

noaa-alerts

A library for consuming and formatting NOAA National Weather Service alerts.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'noaa-alerts'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install noaa-alerts

Usage

Instantiate Noaa::Client with a two letter US state abbreviation. The result is an array of Noaa::Alert objects relevant attributes (description, event, severity, locations, etc).

require 'noaa-alerts'
noaa = Noaa::Client.new('ny')
alert = noaa.alerts[0]

puts alert.locations.join(', ')    # => 'Rockland, Westchester'
puts alert.description             # => 'THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A\n* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...'
puts alert.event                   # => 'Special Weather Statement'
...

Requirements

Ruby 1.9

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request