scottopell / Purlocation

ruby gem to translate Purdue building abbreviations to locations with all available information

Purlocation

This gem will take a Purdue building abbreviation, such as "MTHW" and return a Location object with any and all available information. See usage below for a list of exactly what is available.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'purlocation'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install purlocation

Usage

Include the gem, then get a location object by like so location = Purlocation.get_location "BRNG" Once you have the location object, you can call any of the following methods on it. EX: puts "BRNG has a full name of #{location.name}"

name
abbreviation
lat
lng
image
streetaddress
citystatezip
phone
virtualtour
webpage
category
tourcategory
icontype
details

Its worth noting that the source of this information is used in an interactive map, hence the "virtualtour" and "icontype" fields.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//purlocation/fork )
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