esther-ng / food-trucks

Show Open Food Trucks

A Mac OSX command line program to print a list of food trucks open at runtime. Bon Appetit!

Dependencies

• Ruby
• formatador (for outputting table of food truck names and addresses)

Max OSX comes with Ruby preinstalled. You can check which version you have installed by typing ruby -v. If you do not have Ruby installed, follow the link above to download and install Ruby.

To install formatador:

1. gem install formatador
2. If you clone this repository and have bundler installed, you can also use bundle install

Set Up & Usage

Building from Source

1. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/esther-ng/food-trucks.git
2. Install formatador (see above)
3. ./show-open-food-trucks.rb (set up a bash alias if desired)
4. Follow the prompts

Just Give Me the Food Trucks

1. Navigate to the releases page of this repository
2. Download the show-open-food-trucks file to your usr/local/bin directory
3. From that directory run chmod 755 show-open-food-trucks
4. gem install formatador
5. show-open-food-trucks
6. Follow the prompts

Notes on Throttling

If you receive an error message that your usage has been throttled, you may raise your limits by requesting a San Francisco Data API App Token and utilizing the commented out code on line 54 of the source code.