Well over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a little gem that makes it easy to get notifications when the Tube status changes. As a byproduct it also gives easy access to the tube data as ruby objects too :)
Previously you’d have to actively check the TFL website, or sign up for the TFL Alerts programme, which sends you text alerts.
However service_disruption polls the TFL Data feed for changes, and if there are changes it will alert you using Growl.
So in order to get this to work you’ll need
Installation instructions are available at the projects github repo
As always any feedback would be great, and suggestions for improvements.