Freerider

freerider identifies Car2Go vehicles in your area

Previously Car2Go offerred 20 minutes of free time to drivers who refueled vehicles with a fuel level under 25%.

This is no longer the case (at least in the Twin Cities). However you can get credit by moving Car2Go vehicles that are in violation of snow emergency restrictions (you need to email Car2Go with start/stop vehicle location and time of move.) http://minneapolis.car2go.com/minneapolis-car2go-faqs/

So maybe you can use this to make sure you find a car that you don't have to refuel out of your own pocket.

freerider is a gem that uses the car2go api to locate local car2go vehicles that are less than a specified percent fueled.

You need to get your own consumer key from car2go to use this gem.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'freerider'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install freerider

rake build

or run

./build

to build and install the gem

After packaging you can run

$ CONSUMER_KEY=<your_car2go_consumer_key> FROM_LOCATION='<address_or_place_name>' bin/freerider [-l <location>] [-f <fuel_threshold>] [-r <radius>]

or

$ export CONSUMER_KEY=<your_car2go_consumer_key> 
$ bin/freerider [-l <location>] [-f <fuel_threshold>] [-r <radius>]

For example

$ export CONSUMER_KEY=conkey bin/freerider v -l twincities -f 20 -r 3

will use your consumer key and retrieve all vehicles withing three miles of a point in Minnesota's Twin Cities that are 20 percent or less fueled

location will default to twincities (represent!). fuel_threshold will default to 25.

I work/test using Ruby 2.2.x but any version 2.0.0 or greater will work. Ruby 1.9.3 is right out.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/eebbesen/freerider/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 a new Pull Request

Geocoder.coordinates("Fasika, Saint Paul, MN")

geo_distance = Geocoder::Calculations.distance_between([-93.09774, 44.93669],[-93.17795, 44.94289])
Geocoder::Calculations.to_miles(geo_distance)