metar-parser 0.1.5 → 0.1.6

data/README.rdoc

@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ The information comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's ra
   * http://weather.cod.edu/notes/metar.html
   * http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/METAR/metar-pg3.html - incomplete
 
+= Sources
+
+* Single Files 
+** ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/[CCCC].TXT - plain text, time 3.1s
+** http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=LIRQ - embedded in HTML, time 0.3s
+* Cycle Files
+** http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
+** ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/cycles/[NN]Z.TXT
+
 = Other software
 
 Other Ruby libraries offering METAR parsing:

data/bin/download_raw.rb

@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ Metar::Station.load_local
 
   stations = {}
 
-  Metar::Raw.cache_connection
-
   Metar::Station.all.each do |station|
 
     next if station.cccc[0, 1] < initial

data/lib/metar.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module Metar
   module VERSION #:nodoc:
     MAJOR = 0
     MINOR = 1
-    TINY = 5
+    TINY = 6
  
     STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
   end

data/lib/metar/raw.rb

@@ -9,22 +9,46 @@ module Metar
 
       @connection = nil
 
-      def cache_connection
-        @connection = connection
-      end
-
       def connection
         return @connection if @connection
-        connection = Net::FTP.new('tgftp.nws.noaa.gov')
-        connection.login
-        connection.chdir('data/observations/metar/stations')
-        connection.passive = true
-        connection
+        @connection = Net::FTP.new('tgftp.nws.noaa.gov')
+        @connection.login
+        @connection.passive = true
+        @connection
       end
 
       def fetch(cccc)
+        fetch_file("#{ cccc }.TXT", '/data/observations/metar/stations')
+      end
+
+      # Downloads the latest cycle file (http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml#files)
+      # The files contain a lot (circa 80%) of duplicates
+      # Returns a hash { '[CCCC code]' => 2 line METAR report }
+      # This function takes 10s of seconds to download
+      # N.B.: There is a 10m period each day when each file is not present (the 10m before data is collected)
+      def hourly(hour = current_cycle_hour)
+        cycle_file_name = "%02uZ.TXT" % hour
+        cycle_file = fetch_file(cycle_file_name, '/data/observations/metar/cycles')
+        cycle_file.each_line("\n\n").reduce({}) do |memo, metar|
+          metar =~ /\n([A-Z]...)\s/
+          cccc = $1
+          memo[cccc] = metar
+          memo
+        end
+      end
+
+      # For logic, see http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml - A Discussion of METAR Cycles
+      def current_cycle_hour
+        time = Time.now.gmtime
+        time.min > 44 ? time.hour : time.hour - 1
+      end
+
+      private
+
+      def fetch_file(file, directory = nil)
+        connection.chdir(directory) if directory
         s = ''
-        connection.retrbinary("RETR #{ cccc }.TXT", 1024) do |chunk|
+        connection.retrbinary("RETR #{ file }", 1024) do |chunk|
           s << chunk
         end
         s

metadata

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
   segments: 
   - 0
   - 1
-  - 5
-  version: 0.1.5
+  - 6
+  version: 0.1.6
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Joe Yates
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2010-03-17 00:00:00 +01:00
+date: 2010-03-19 00:00:00 +01:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: 
 - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency