README

This is a simple weather app that uses the OpenWeatherMap API to get the current weather for a given address. It is built using Ruby on Rails.

Here is what you need to do to get it running:

• Ruby version

  • 3.1.3

• Rails version

  • 7.0.8

• Test Framework

  • RSpec

• System dependencies

  • It's a simple app, so you don't need to install anything else. You will be good to go after you install Ruby and bundle install

• Functionality

  • The app has a simple search form that take a city name or zip code and returns the current weather for that location
  • It uses the OpenWeatherMap API to get the weather data
  • The data is cached for 30 minutes to avoid hitting the API too often

• Testing

  • The app has a few automated tests to make sure the API is working as expected
  • There is more opportunity to add tests, covering caching, and other negative cases and edge cases, but I wanted to keep it simple for this exercise
  • You can run the tests with rspec

• API Key

  • The API key is encrypted and stored in credentials.yml.enc. You will need to add your own API key to the credentials file to get the app working
  • Remove config/master.key and config/credentials.yml.enc
  • Get a free API key at https://openweathermap.org/api
  • Run EDITOR="vim" rails credentials:edit in the terminal: This command will create a new master.key and credentials.yml.enc
  • Add the following to the credentials file:

  • open_weather_map:
      api_key: YOUR_API_KEY