Forecaster is an app I wrote as a job interview take home project.
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Ruby version 2.3.1
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Rails version 5.0.4
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Open Weather API Key (http://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up)
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PostgreSQL 9.5.3 (although it isn't used)
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ENV Handling gem (dotenv-rails)
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net/http (https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.4.1/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html)
Clone Repo
git clone https://github.com/colinxchristmas/forecaster.git
Change dir into forecaster
cd forecaster
Install Gems
bundle install
Setup Database (no database models used)
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
Setup a .env file
After you get your API key from Open Weather (http://openweathermap.org/appid)
Add key to .env
OPEN_WEATHER_KEY=''
Start the server and navigate to (http://localhost:3000/)
rails s
As this was a rather quick turn around time I haven't implemented any tests.
Functionality is in place for just US zipcode weather with a current forecast. I have part of the implementation for building a query in the /services call but ran a bit short on time to implement it.
Cookies are stored in the user session with an expiration. Subsequent calls to the same zip code are pulled from the session cookie rather than a second call to the API.
Cookes are prepended with _forecaster_ and then the individual zipcode 12345 to separate them into individual expiring cookies, rather than written to an entire expiring session.
I decided to avoid saving anything to the database to keep it lean. I'm sure there are quite a few better ways to cache the data like redis, but due to time I wasn't able to do that.
Formatting is very basic. At some point I may revisit this to clean up the form and add some bootstrap styling to it.