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ZipWeather: Current Weather Conditions for Your Zip Code

Criteria

• Rails App
• Consume data via OpenWeatherMap API
• PostgreSQL database
• Rspec test suite
• Error tolerance
• Weather data written to database

User Story

• User goes to home page
• User sees form with zip code and a submit button
• User enters zip code
• User clicks submit button
• Page displays current weather conditions
• Page additionally displays previous 5 weather measurements w/ zipcode

Display

• Zip code
• General weather conditions (e.g., sunny, rainy, etc.)
• Atmospheric pressure
• Temperature (F)
• Wind (direction + speed)
• Humidity
• UTC Timestamp

Documentation

• Setup instructions: This assumes you are set up with Rails, Ruby, PostgreSQL

  • Run bundle to install dependencies bundle
  • Create database rails db:create
  • Run test suite rspec spec || rake
  • Start Server rails s

• You can also check out the Heroku instance here

• TravisCI build info available here

• Code is available on github here