weather Wise

About the Project

Weather Wise is a Backend Project that that provides weather information for a specific area. It offers current weather conditions and a five-day forecast, as well as determines the route to a desired destination and the corresponding weather conditions upon arrival. The application integrates with Weather and MapQuest APIs to retrieve data location and weather data. It then creates endpoints in a new API to serialize and send the data to the front-end application.

Learning Goals

• Expose an API that aggregates data from multiple external APIs
• Expose an API that requires an authentication token
• Expose an API for CRUD functionality
• Determine completion criteria based on the needs of other developers
• Test both API consumption and exposure, making use of the VCR mocking tool

Versions

• Ruby 3.1.1
• Rails 7.0.4

API's Used

MapQuest Api Weather Api

Setup

1. Fork and Clone the repository

$ git clone [email protected]:JTaylor28/weather_wise.git

2. Navigate to the directory

$ cd weather_wise

3. Install Gem Packages

$ `bundle install`

4. Update Gem Packages

$ `bundle update`

5. Run the Migrations

$ rails db:{drop,create,migrate,seed}

6. Setup Figaro Gem

$ bundle exec figaro install

Test Suite Instructions

1. Navigate to each API link and apply for an api key

2. Navigate to config/application.yml and add your api keys in the following format:

• MAPQUEST_API_KEY: <YOUR MAPQUEST API KEY HERE>
• WEATHER_API_KEY: <YOUR WEATHER API KEY HERE>