Ruby Class for using Ziptastic API

irb_output.txt

Ziptastic.new.lookup "48073"
=> {"city"=>"Royal Oak", "country"=>"US", "county"=>"Oakland", "state"=>"Michigan", "state_short"=>"MI", "postal_code"=>"48073"}

Ziptastic.new.lookup "garbage"
=> {}

ziptastic.rb

require "net/http"
require "uri"
require "json"

class Ziptastic
  BASE_URL = 'http://zip.getziptastic.com/v2/US/'

  def initialize
  end

  def lookup(zip)
    raise "No Zip code provided" unless zip
    uri = URI.parse(BASE_URL + zip)
    response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
    JSON.parse response.body
  end

end