/rack-weather

A simple Rack web app for querying and displaying data from the OpenWeatherMap API

Primary LanguageRuby

Rack Weather

A simple Rack web app for querying and rendering data from the OpenWeatherMap API.

Getting Started

  1. Sign up with OpenWeatherMap here

  2. Get an API key here

  3. Git clone rack-weather

  4. Make an env.rb file at the root directory

  5. Define your API key in env.rb like so:

    ENV['API_KEY] = 'your-api-key'

  6. Install the gems

    bundle install

  7. Start the server

    bundle exec rackup --port 3000 --host 0.0.0.0

Using the App

There are currently two urls for querying weather data:

/weather/:city/:country

/weather-data/:city/:country

The first route displays HTML using Trailblazer's cells gem

The 'weather-data' route displays the JSON response

Examples:

localhost:3000/weather/London/uk

localhost:3000/weather-data/London/uk

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to this great Rack Tutorial

Also to this Sitepoint article on using Trailblazer cells