Sandy

Rubygem for consuming power outage data for the Greater New York area. Currently supports ConEd. Build Status

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'sandy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install sandy

Usage

ConEd

Polling

The ConEd outage feed is only updated every 15 minutes. Repeated polling won't get you new results.

Example

report = Sandy::Provider::ConEd::Report.new

Regions:

regions = report.regions
regions.each do |region|
  puts "#{region.name}, #{region.customers_affected}"
end

=> 

Bronx, 28644
Brooklyn, 37016
Manhattan, 226225
Queens, 85057
Staten Island, 58043
Westchester, 123571

Neighborhoods:

neighborhoods = report.neighborhoods
neighborhoods.each do |neighborhood|
  puts "#{neighborhood.name} (#{neighborhood.latitude}, #{neighborhood.longitude}) #{neighborhood.customers_affected} out of #{neighborhood.total_customers}"
end

=> 

Central Bronx (40.82, -73.86) 26 out of 44452
Fordham (40.86, -73.9) 164 out of 114772
Northeast Bronx (40.87, -73.82) 13139 out of 79942
Riverdale (40.89, -73.9) 3801 out of 34772
Southeast Bronx (40.83, -73.82) 5919 out of 89736
...

Methods

Area#name
Area#customers_affected
Area#region - returns a string of the parent region name for a neighborhood)
Area#latitude
Area#longitude
Area#total_customers
Area#estimated_recovery_time

Contributing

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