This gem provides a command line interface to find information about London's Bike Hire stations, it allows you to find stations by name or their ID or a location and retrieve information about the status of a station.

I got fed up digging through the official map to see which bike stations were free - everyone knows the command line is way more efficient.

Here's the spec for London Bike Hire CLI:

• Find all stations
• Find by ID
• Find nearest station
• Find by name
• Display status of stations

Using london-bike-hire-cli could not be simpler - just install the london-bike-hire-cli gem.

$ gem install london-bike-hire-cli

You can run london-bike-hire-cli from the command line with just the lbh command.

For a list of arguments just use the -h switch.

$ lbh -h

List all however-many-hundred bike stations there are. With pagination.

$ lbh all

Find a the nearest bike station to the specified type below. This will return five stations.

Available types:

• search - Most search terms; such as placename, postcode
• id - An ID of another bike station

$ lbh near --{type} {search_value}

# Near by search term
$ lbh near --search N19AE
$ lbh near --search 'waterloo station'

# Near another bike station id
$ lbh near --id 123

Note: Don't forget to wrap search term in quotes if it contains spaces.

Find a Bike station by it's Tfl station ID. This will return one station.

$ lbh find --id {id}
$ lbh find --id 439

Search all bike stations' name attribute for the search value. This will return zero or more results.

$ lbh where --{attribute} {search_value}
$ lbh where --name kings

$ lbh find --id 439
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
----- Bike station
Id: 439
Name: Killick Street, Kings Cross
Lat: 51.5338
Long: -0.118677
Temporary: false
Bikes: 13
Docks_free: 9
Docks_total: 22
Link to map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/preview/@51.5338,-0.118677,17z
Updated at: 2015-03-31 20:46:01
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/rob-murray/london-bike-hire-cli/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

Install dependancies

$ bundle install --no-deployment

Run test script as entry point to application

$ ruby test.rb find --id 439

This project is available for use under the MIT software license. See LICENSE

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