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Sweater Weater

This application provides weather information for a roadtrip. Currently, this is a Rails API with endpoints created per project specifications for Turing School.

Deployed on heroku at https://sweater-weather-ap.herokuapp.com/

Focus Areas

  • Consuming a number of various APIs
  • Producing serialized API responses
  • Authenticated API calls
  • Test driven development

APIs Used

Technical Specifications

  • Ruby version 2.4.1
  • Rails API version 5.2.4.1

Local Environment:

git clone
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:{create,migrate}
rails s

Running Tests:

  • You can run the full testing suite with the command bundle exec rspec

  • You can run an individual test using bundle exec rspec <path-to-file>

Using Fiagro in development and testing:

Keep environment variables secure by using Figaro to generate an application.yml file. See more information about using the figaro gem at https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro.

Required Environment Variables

Environment variables and required API keys/tokens (in Figaro format) :

  1. Google Geocode API Key defined as ENV['GOOGLE_GEO_API_KEY']
  2. Darksky Developer Token defined as ENV['DARKSKY_API_KEY']
  3. Unsplash API Key defined as ENV['UNSPLASH_API_KEY']
  4. Google Directions API Key defined as ENV['GOOGLE_API_KEY']

Refreshing VCR Test Cassettes

From time to time you may receive an error when testing with the VCR. You can delete the cassettes directory from your spec folder and run bundle exec rspec to refresh the cassettes used. More information on VCR cassettes can be found in the VCR documentation.