Sweater Weather

This is a back end API based application for an imaginary front end. It uses Ruby on Rails with a PostgresQL database and has the following endpoints:

• Retrieve specific weather data for a city: GET /api/v1/forecast?location=city,st
  • Current weather
  • Daily weather for the next 5 days
  • Hourly weather for the next 8 hours
• Background image for a city GET /api/v1/backgrounds?location=city,st
• Visitor registration POST /api/v1/users
• User login POST /api/v1/sessions
• Road trip POST /api/v1/road_trip

All responses are formatted to JSON:API v1.0 specifications.
Tested with SimpleCov 351 / 351 LOC (100.0%) covered.

Environment

• set up with rails new sweater_weather --api --database=postgresql -T -M
• Ruby version 2.5.3
• Rails version 6.0.3.2
• Uses FastJSON API gem (no longer maintained)

Installation

Clone into a local repository
CD to repository in terminal
Install gems

bundle

Set up database

rails db:{create,migrate}

Install application.yml file through figaro gem

bundle exec figaro install

Add API keys to application.yml

google_key: (Google Maps Geocoding API key)
openweather_key: (OpenWeather One Call API key)
hikingproject_key: (Hiking Project API key)
unsplash_key: (Unsplash API key)

Usage

Run the server

rails s

Hit your endpoints with Postman or favorite API dev tool

Forecast (/forecast)

GET localhost:3000/api/v1/forecast?location=denver,co

Backgrounds (/backgrounds)

GET localhost:3000/api/v1/backgrounds?location=denver,co

Registration (/users)

POST localhost:3000/api/v1/users
example:
{
  "email": "whatever@example.com",
  "password": "password"
  "password_confirmation": "password"
}

Login (/sessions)

POST localhost:3000/api/v1/sessions
example:
{
  "email": "whatever@example.com",
  "password": "password"
}

Road Trip (/road_trip, must pass payload in request body, not params)

`POST localhost:3000/api/v1/road_trip`
example body:
{
  "origin": "Denver,CO",
  "destination": "Pueblo,CO",
  "api_key": "jgn983hy48thw9begh98h4539h4"
}

Contributing

This was a solo project for an imaginary front end application. It does make real API calls and return JSON (you can test these endpoints at https://sweater-weather-jg.herokuapp.com/api/v1/endpoint
If you have any suggestions or code submissions, feel free to submit a pull request or reach out to me to discuss them.