Super simple Sinatra wrapper around the RubySunrise gem to provide sunrise/sunset data using JSON web-services.
From the .gems file:
- sinatra 1.0
- RubySunrise 0.2
- json 1.4.3
- tzinfo 0.3.17
% git clone git://github.com/mikereedell/Sunrise-WS.git
% cd Sunrise-WS
% ruby sunrisews.rb
That's it!
There are just a handful of services provided:
- Get all sunrise/sunset data for today.
- Get all sunrise/sunset data this year.
- Get all sunrise/sunset data a specific date.
And by all sunrise/sunset data, there are four types:
- Official rise/set occurs when the sun is at 90deg, 50minutes.
- Civil rise/set (commonly referred to as twilight) occurs when the sun is at 96deg (six degrees below the horizon).
- Nautical rise/set occurs when the sun is at 102deg.
- Astronomical rise/set occurs when the sun is at 108deg.
All methods take a common set of parameters:
- Latitude: Decimal representation of the locations latitude (+ when above the equator, - below).
- Longitude: Decimal representation of the locations longitude (+ when east of the Prime Meridian, - when west).
- Timezone will be in two parts, the first being the country/region and the second being the city, ie, "America/New_York". See http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/tzinfo/lib/tzinfo/indexes/timezones.rb for all available timezone identifiers in the tzinfo gem.
Call /sunrise/today/:lat/:lng/:tz1/:tz2 with the latitude, longitude, and timezone data of the location.
This will return a hash where the key is today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format and the value is a hash of all rise/set data. Ex:
{
"2010-08-11": {
"civil_sunrise": "05:41:00 -0700",
"official_sunset": "20:05:00 -0700",
"official_sunrise": "06:10:00 -0700",
"nautical_sunrise": "05:05:00 -0700",
"civil_sunset": "20:34:00 -0700",
"astronomical_sunset": "21:48:00 -0700",
"nautical_sunset": "21:10:00 -0700",
"astronomical_sunrise": "04:27:00 -0700"
}
}
Call /sunrise/:date/:lat/:lng/:tz1/:tz2 with the latitude, longitude, and timezone data of the location along with the date. The given date must be in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD' or the response will be a 500 error.
This will return a hash where the key is the date that was passed in and the value is a hash of all rise/set data:
{
"2008-11-01": {
"civil_sunrise": "07:05:00 -0700",
"official_sunset": "18:00:00 -0700",
"official_sunrise": "07:33:00 -0700",
"nautical_sunrise": "06:33:00 -0700",
"civil_sunset": "18:28:00 -0700",
"astronomical_sunset": "19:31:00 -0700",
"nautical_sunset": "19:00:00 -0700",
"astronomical_sunrise": "06:01:00 -0700"
}
}
Call /sunrise/year/:lat/:lng/:tz1/:tz2 with the latitude, longitude, and timezone identifier of the location.
The response will be an array of 365 (or 366 on leap years) objects with identical structure to the "today" service. The array will be sorted by date and index 0 will be 01 January.
Mike Reedell
mike@reedell.com
http://www.mikereedell.com
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