Author: Steven Olson
Live Version: http://www.ramblemap.com/
This application, built in Ruby on Rails, is designed to allow users to explore world-wide patterns and trends for exchange rate, expenses, and other datasets. It was built with long-term travelers and expats in mind, people who are interested in getting a bird's-eye view of a region's financial situation.
Internal datasets were built from World Bank and IEP data, while up-to-date and historical exchange rates are pulled from the OpenExchangeRates API. The mapping library is jVectorMap, which acts as a local JavaScript API. The Twitter API and Twitter-Omniauth allow for sign-in and tweeting of maps.
The application is deployed on Heroku with a Postgres database. Performance is increased through low and high-level caching, and a background rake task to fill the most popular API call caches nightly.
To run this application locally, you would need to obtain API keys from OpenExchangeRates and Twitter.
Gem dependencies can be found in the Gemfile.
If you wish to download the project and set it up locally, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/SteveOscar/ramble_map.gitbundlebundle exec figaro install- This sets up figaro on your local machine. You will need to obtain the keys mentioned in the above section and save them in yourapplication.ymlfile.rake db:setupto seed the db with countries and datasets
The application is tested with Minitest, using Capybara for feature tests, and VCR for API call stubbing. SimpleCov is used to provide basic test coverage results.
The test suite can be run from the main directory of the project by running the command rake test. The project has test coverage at the following levels: model, service, controller, and integration.