The Climate Pattern Generator was designed to automatically generate patterns for knitting or crocheting climate data.
Users input a zip code and a year, and the program scrapes the daily maximum temperature for that year, and converts that temperature to the corresponding color for representing that temperature in a fiber arts project.
Users can also view a more detailed daily weather summary for each day of the year after viewing the pattern.
See The Tempestry Project for examples and more details: https://www.tempestryproject.com
Weather data derived from the National Climatic Data Center, scraped via the Old Farmer's Almanac:
https://www.almanac.com/weather/history
Read more in my Blog Posts: To Scrape, or Not To Scrape: https://dev.to/jessesbyers/to-scrape-or-not-to-scrape-3cn8
Climate Pattern Generator: Testing and Lessons Learned: https://dev.to/jessesbyers/climate-pattern-generator-testing-and-lessons-learned-5d0p
Clone the repository and open it using your local IDE: $ git clone https://github.com/jessesbyers/climate_pattern_generator.git
Navigate into the application folder: $ cd climate_pattern_generator
Bundle Install $ bundle install
NOTE: The full version of this apllication takes approximately 20 minutes to scrape a full year's worth of weather data.
Use the Demo Version (demo branch) to explore all features of the program with a smaller amount of data. $ git checkout demo
To run the program: $ ./bin/climate_pattern_generator
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. 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.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/'lucky-keyboard-3164'/climate_pattern_generator. 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.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Everyone interacting in the ClimatePatternGenerator project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.