saschultz/uforegon

UFOregon

This application uses data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) database @ http://www.nuforc.org to show on a Google Map all of the locations where a UFO sighting has been reported in the state of Oregon. Upon clicking the marker information about the different sightings will be available.

Screenshot

Built With

• ActiveRecord
• Bootstrap
• CSS
• HTML
• Postgres
• Rake
• Ruby
• Sinatra
• Javascript
• JSON
• Google Maps API
• Heroku

User Stories

As a user, I want to see a map of Oregon. As a user, I want to search for a city in Oregon to see its reported UFO sightings. As a user, I want to see more information about the sightings that have been reported there. As a user, I want to see an indicator that shows which city's sighting information I am currently viewing with a marker on the map.

Specifications

Behavior	Input	Output
view map of Oregon	user navigates to home page	map of Oregon loads with a marker indicating the center of the map
enter a city name to see a marker for that city	"Portland"	marker drops on Portland
click UFO marker for a city to see more details	click UFO on Portland	A list of all of the descriptions of each unique sighting in that city shows below the map, and a display window on the marker shoes the city name, coordinates, and number of sightings

Setup/Installation Requirements

1. ⌘Command T to open a new tab in the terminal and start postgres (leave it running in the background)

$ postgres

2. Clone this repository in the terminal

$ git clone https://github.com/saschultz/UFOregon.git

3. Make sure you have rake installed

$ gem install rake

4. Navigate to the project directory

$ cd Desktop/UFOregon

5. In the terminal

$ rake db:schema:load

6. Open the project in a text editor of your choice

$ atom .

7. Prepare the database

$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate
$ rake db:test:prepare

8. In psql navigate to the oregon_sightings_development database and copy in the database file

$ psql

\c oregon_sightings_development

COPY ufos(sight_date, city, state, shape, duration, summary, latitude, longitude) FROM '/Users/Guest/desktop/UFOregon/raw_data/oregon_sightings_latlong.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV;

9. ⌘Command T to open another new tab in the terminal and start sinatra (leave it running in background)

$ ruby app.rb

10. Navigate to localhost:4567 in a web browser of your choice

Known Bugs

Authors

Jin Camou, Dominic Brown, Sara Schultz, Dana Weiss

License

open source GPL & MIT

Copyright (c) 2017 **Jin Camou, Dominic Brown, Sara Schultz, Dana Weiss**