Edinburgh BusTracker via Ruby.
An attempt at providing an object-based interface for interacting with the BusTracker data.
gem install bus_tracker
Find all of the bus stops for a particular service: service = BusTracker.service('N30')
service.number
#=> 'N30'
After fetching a service, you can also pull up information about each stop for that service:
bus_stop = service.bus_stops.first
bus_stop.code
> '36232545'
bus_stop.name
> 'Castle Street'
bus_stop.latitude
> "55.951084136963"
bus_stop.longitude
> "-3.2017660140991"
bus_stop.service_numbers
> ["1", "3", "3A", "4", "22", "25", "X25", "30", "33", "34", "44", "44A", "N22", "N25", "N30", "N44"]
If you know the code for a bus stop you can fetch the associated departures. This is the same information that you'd see on the bus tracker boards, but instantiated as their own departure objects. stop = BusTracker.bus_stop('36232545') departure = stop.departures.first
departure.service_number
#=> 30
departure.destination
#=> MUSSELBURGH
departure.due
#=> 7
For any BusTracker::BusStop instance, you can fetch the latest departure times: stop.fetch_departures! stop.departures.first.due #=> 5
Copyright (c) 2010 [Mark Connell], released under the MIT license