NYCASP - Parking Notifier

Tweeting NYC ASP info daily at 7:30 AM, 4 PM, & during emergency suspensions. Account is automated and will not respond

Inspired by this article I decided to create a minimalistic and simple solution in Ruby. And here there is!

When there in no need to move your car, you will get the text message!

Usage

Heroku (preferred)

Setuping the notifier on Heroku will allow you to fully automate it. Notifier will be triggered everyday at the same time of the day and text message will be sent to you if needed.

Start with clicking Heroku Deploy Button:

You will be asked to set:

App's name
Region
Environmental variables for Twillio & Twitter

Click Deploy App button.
Click Manage App button.
Go to Heroku Scheduler settings:

Create a new job.
Set the schedule to run in preferably once per day, for example in the evening (remember, it's UTC).
As running command type: ruby notifier.rb
Save new job

Everything should be set and working. Optionally:
You can check logs after job is triggered. (requirement: Heroku CLI installed)

run: heroku logs --ps scheduler -a your-app-name -t - this will print logs to your terminal and tail them.

Locally

If you don't want to deploy it to Heroku you can run it manually on your local machine.

1. Setup your credentials by filling the `secrets.yml` file:

twitter_api:
  api_key: api-key
  api_secret_key: api-secret-key
  access_token: access-token
  access_secret_token: access-secret-token
twilio:
  account_sid: account-sid
  auth_token: auth-token
  from_number: from-number
  to_number: to-number

You can start by copying the secrets.yml file:

cp secrets.example.yml

2. Run the script (Docker required, Ruby not required to be installed locally)

Following command will fetch Docker base image, build app's new Docker image and run ruby command inside of it:

make run

2.1 Run the script (Docker not required, Ruby required to be installed locally)

ruby notifier.rb

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