First fork and then clone this repository.
cd into the folder you just cloned and run the following commands:
bundle install
rails server
If it worked, you should be able to navigate to http://localhost:3000 and see something there. If it didn't work, make sure you don't have any old servers running in other tabs or windows.
As described on the application's home page, I want you to make links like these work:
- http://localhost:3000/weather/5807+S+Woodlawn+Ave
- http://localhost:3000/weather/450+N+Cityfront+Plaza+Dr+Chicago+IL+60611
In order to do this, you will need to first complete the RCAV for that URL (I started it off in routes.rb).
Then, in your ForecastsController file, add the following to the top:
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
You are now ready to read from the Google Geocoding API and Forecast API as you did last week in the API projects.
Inside the location action, do all the work you need to
- retrieve the user input (whatever they typed after the slash)
- exchange it for a lat/lng pair from the Geocoding API
- exchange the lat/lng pair for weather info from the Forecast API
- place any values that you want to show the user in instance variables
- write some HTML around the instance variables in the view template
At the end of the day, if I visit
http://localhost:3000/weather/5807+S+Woodlawn+Ave
I should see something like
The current temperature at 5807+S+Woodlawn+Ave is 46.6 degrees.
The outlook for the next hour is: Clear for the hour.
The outlook for the next day is: Mostly cloudy starting tomorrow morning.
<link> to Bootstrap or a Bootswatch in the <head> of your pages (located in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb), and make things look prettier.
Embed a Google map in the view, centered on the provided address. Refer to the docs:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/map-simple
The key concept is, just like with Bootstrap, to first paste in the example markup and see if it works.
Then, replace whichever part of the static markup you want to with embedded Ruby tags that contain your dynamic values.