JavaKoala/local_weather

Weather demonstration project

Weather Forecast

Ruby on Rails demostration project

Weather retrieval

The weather retrieval uses Geocoder and the weather.gov API

• Geocoder ( http://www.rubygeocoder.com/ ) is used to determine the latitude and longitude of a given city and state. Not every city is returned.

• National Weather Service API ( https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api ) is used with the city's longitude and latitude to return the forecast.

Setup

1. Install Ruby version 3.1.2

2. Install bundler and bundle install

gem install bundler
bundle install

3. Install yarn and yarn install

yarn install

4. Run the tests

bundle exec rspec
yarn jest

5. Enable the Rails cache in development

bundle exec rails dev:cache

6. Run the Cypress specs

CYPRESS=1 bin/rails server -p 5017
yarn cypress open

7. Run the webpack dev server

./bin/webpack-dev-server

8. Run the rails server

bundle exec rails s

9. Navigate to http://localhost:3000/ and enter your city and state for the forecast

Next steps

The next step is to use a reliable API to retrieve the weather, possibly https://openweathermap.org/api