krodante/weather_app

WeatherApp

The assignment has the following requirements:

• Must be done in Ruby on Rails
• Accept an address as input
• Retrieve forecast data for the given address. This should include, at minimum, the current temperature (Bonus points - Retrieve high/low and/or extended forecast)
• Display the requested forecast details to the user
• Cache the forecast details for 30 minutes for all subsequent requests by zip codes.
• Display indicator if result is pulled from cache.

Assumptions

• Imperial units (Fahrenheit, mph, etc)
• US-only addresses (requirements indicate caching on zip code as opposed to postal code)
• This project assumes you already have ruby install on your system. If not, please follow the instructions here:

Install Ruby with asdf

• Install asdf

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev
   sudo apt install curl git
   git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.8.1
  

• call code ~/.bashrc to open your bash profile
• add . $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh and . $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash to the end of the file
• add plugins and install ruby

   asdf plugin add ruby
   asdf install ruby latest
  

• find the version you installed with asdf list ruby and set the version globally

   asdf list ruby
   asdf global ruby 3.2.2
  

Setup Instructions

1. Install homebrew

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
   

2. Install and start redis

   brew install redis
   brew services start redis
   

3. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/krodante/weather_app.git
   

   Note: I uploaded the master.key file to the repository in order for the assessment to be sent with only a single github link. I would not add this file in a true production environment, and instead would send it securely or use Vault secrets.

4. Navigate to the project directy and install gems

   cd weather_app
   bundle install
   

5. Run tests

   rspec spec
   

6. Run server at localhost:3000

   rails s
   

Usage

Fetch current and forecast weather for a given address.

• In the browser, navigate to the root url http://localhost:3000/
• Enter any address
  • Address must contain a zip code. If there is no zip code, an error is returned.
• Current and Forecast weather is shown on the weather/show page.
  • It's a lot of information! Each column is one day, and each row of a column is a 3-hour segment.
  • For example, if you search at 11pm on May 11, 2023, one column will have up to eight forecasts for May 12, 2023, with the timestamps 0:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00, and 21:00
• Click on the button or navigate back in the browser to return to the root url and search for another address.

Questions

Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions. Thank you!