From: Hans  Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2007-01-27T15:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby WX (weather)



On Jan 26, 4:01 pm, Tom Pollard <t...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> That looks cool.  I have a Python module to parse METAR that I'd been
> think about porting to Ruby.
>
>      http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/metar/1.3.0
>
> I'll have to take a close look at your module to see whether there's
> anything left that's worth doing.  Do you parse any of the 'remark'
> fields?  This is where the precipitation and the precise temperature/
> dew point are reported, among other things.

There's plenty left to do if you're interested. Remark parsing is one
big task that I haven't even begun to tackle yet. The other major TODO
items:

- a fetch method to grab the METAR from the web and parse it
- human-readable output
- internationalization, e.g. different units (this one's not so big)
- TAF forecasts

Happy to accept patches. 

darcs get http://hans.fugal.net/src/ruby-wx