dbrady_trainline
Build a bot that triggers searches on http://thetrainline.com and returns the results in a specific format. Input
The bot should respond to ComThetrainline.find(from, to, departure_at).
Assume that the parameters from and to will be EXACTLY what you need.
departure_at will be a Ruby DateTime object.
Output
find() should return an array. Each element of the array should be an option for a trip. E.g. If you search for London to Paris, and they give you 10 "segments" leaving each hour on the hour, the array size should be 10. Each "segment" should be in this format and should include all data:
{
:departure_station => "Ashchurch For Tewkesbury",
:departure_at => #<DateTime: 2023-04-26T06:09:00+00:00 ((2456774j,22140s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
:arrival_station => "Ash",
:arrival_at => #<DateTime: 2023-04-26T09:37:00+00:00 ((2456774j,34620s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
:service_agencies => ["thetrainline"],
:duration_in_minutes => 208,
:changeovers => 2,
:products => ["train"],
:fares => ["See below"],
}
# Fare
{
:name => "Advance Single",
:price_in_cents => 1939,
:currency => "GBP",
:comfort_class => 1,
},The parser here works as expected on the stub data, but there are some authentication issues around fetching live data from thetrainline.com which cannot be overcome in the time constraints.