cmason / eztz

Ruby wrapper for the Google Time Zone API

Eztz

Ruby wrapper for the Google Time Zone API

Requirements

• Ruby >= 2.7

Other versions of Ruby may work, but the gem is tested against the above versions.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

 gem 'eztz'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install eztz

Usage

An API key is required to access the Google Time Zone API. You can create a new API key from the Google Cloud Console.

# Set your API key
Eztz.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

# Pass location coordinates as a string
$ Eztz.timezone(location: '29.65,-95.28')

=> #<Eztz::TimeZoneResponse:0x007fe71ba2df78 @timestamp=1488834591, @dst_offset=0, @error_message=nil, @raw_offset=-21600, @status="OK", @id="America/Chicago", @name="Central Standard Time">

or

# Pass location coordinates as an array
$ Eztz.timezone(location: [29.65, -95.28])

=> #<Eztz::TimeZoneResponse:0x007fe71ba2df78 @timestamp=1488834591, @dst_offset=0, @error_message=nil, @raw_offset=-21600, @status="OK", @id="America/Chicago", @name="Central Standard Time">

Optional parameters include:

• timestamp: specifies the desired time as seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. The Google Maps Time Zone API uses the timestamp to determine whether or not Daylight Savings should be applied. Times before 1970 can be expressed as negative values. Defaults to the current time.
• language: The language in which to return results Defaults to 'en'. A list of supported languages can be found at developers.google.com/maps/faq#languagesupport

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. 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.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/cmason/eztz. 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.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

eztz's Issues

License missing from gemspec

RubyGems.org doesn't report a license for your gem. This is because it is not specified in the gemspec of your last release.

via e.g.

spec.license = 'MIT'
# or
spec.licenses = ['MIT', 'GPL-2']

Including a license in your gemspec is an easy way for rubygems.org and other tools to check how your gem is licensed. As you can imagine, scanning your repository for a LICENSE file or parsing the README, and then attempting to identify the license or licenses is much more difficult and more error prone. So, even for projects that already specify a license, including a license in your gemspec is a good practice. See, for example, how rubygems.org uses the gemspec to display the rails gem license.

There is even a License Finder gem to help companies/individuals ensure all gems they use meet their licensing needs. This tool depends on license information being available in the gemspec. This is an important enough issue that even Bundler now generates gems with a default 'MIT' license.

I hope you'll consider specifying a license in your gemspec. If not, please just close the issue with a nice message. In either case, I'll follow up. Thanks for your time!

Appendix:

If you need help choosing a license (sorry, I haven't checked your readme or looked for a license file), GitHub has created a license picker tool. Code without a license specified defaults to 'All rights reserved'-- denying others all rights to use of the code.
Here's a list of the license names I've found and their frequencies

p.s. In case you're wondering how I found you and why I made this issue, it's because I'm collecting stats on gems (I was originally looking for download data) and decided to collect license metadata,too, and make issues for gemspecs not specifying a license as a public service :). See the previous link or my blog post about this project for more information.

Test ticket from Code Climate

httparty (~> 0.10.0) ??

Hi -

Is there a reason eztz is restricting httparty to 0.10.0? 0.11.0 is current... ??