Announcing RCAP - Common Alerting Protocol for Ruby

Published 03 November 2009 by Farrel

Over the past month I’ve been scratching a bit of a coding itch and implemented the Common Alerting Protocol as a Ruby gem called RCAP.

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications. CAP increases warning effectiveness and simplifies the task of activating a warning for responsible officials. – CAP@Wikipedia

• RCAP Project Page
• RCAP API Documentation
• RCAP Public Git Repository

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Farrel Lifson is a lead developer at Aimred.