Airports

Airports gives you access to data on airports around the world.

Usage

Install the gem (Ruby 2.1.0 and later only):

$ gem install airports

You can then look up an airport by its IATA code (e.g. LHR for London Heathrow) using Airports.find_by_iata_code, which returns an object with a bunch of accessors like name and city:

Airports.find_by_iata_code("LHR")
=> #<Airports::Airport:0x007fd9a1bbd550 @name="Heathrow", @city="London", @country="United Kingdom", @iata="LHR", @icao="EGLL", @latitude="51.4775", @longitude="-0.461389", @altitude="83", @timezone="0", @dst="E">

A couple of other methods provide access to aggregate data.

You can call Airports.iata_codes for a list of valid IATA codes, perfect for Rails validations:

validates :destination_airport, inclusion: { in: Airports.iata_codes, message: "is not a valid airport" }

Or Airport.all will provide Airports::Airport objects representing all the airports the gem knows about.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/timrogers/mummy. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Acknowledgements

The data is taken from https://github.com/ram-nadella/airport-codes, which uses source data from OpenFlights. Source data is included using Git submodules.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.