Sky.rb

Context

Rails-based API providing data about bright stars, contellations, Messier and NGC objects, and Solar system major bodies.

Sources

• HYG Database vendor/hygdata_v3.csv comes from astronexus/HYG-Database
• Constellation star mapping vendor/constellations/constellationships.dat comes from Stellarium/stellarium
• NGC vendor/ngc.csv comes from mattiaverga/OpenNGC

[Currently in active development]

Requirements

• Ruby 2.7.1
• Rails 6
• PostgreSQL ~11

Initialization

$ bundle e rails db:prepare

# bundle e rails c

Sky::Constellations.new.load!  # Loads constellations
Sky::HygDatabase.new.load!     # Loads stars from HYG database
Sky::Asterisms.new.load!       # Loads constellation asterisms
Sky::Ngc::ProcessData.process! # Processes OpenNGC data source to clean it
Sky::Ngc::Import.new.load!     # Imports dark sky objects from OpenNGC

CI

Project's Github Actions

Test

$ bundle e rails db:prepare
$ bundle e rspec