Introduction:

SimpleWeather is a Ruby On Rails projects that takes a user address and displays the high and low temperature.

Requirements

A weather API key from AccuWeather. They have a free tier that allows you to send 50 requests a day.

What's included

Standard Rails stuff here.

• Accepts an address as input.
• Retrieves high/low temperatures for given input.
• Caches the forecast details for 30 minutes for all subsequent requests by zip codes.
• Displays an indicator if the result is pulled from the cache.
• Rspec and Capybara for testing
• Error handling

Lets run it

Sure thing!

• Sign up for an AccuWeather Account.
• Create a .env file in the project root directory
• Populate that file with the key you recieved from Accuweather and place it in the .env. It should look like so: ACCU_WEATHER_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
• Run bundle install
• Run rails s

Thats it! 👋