Weather App

Simple Weather App to search for forecasts. Built with Ruby on Rails 8, Bootstrap 5, Bootstrap Icons, RSpec, Capybara.
Powered by WeatherAPI

Dev Dependencies

• Ruby version 3.3.x or 3.4.x
• git
• postgresql (might remove this dependency since the db isn't really needed at this time)
• create an account with WeatherAPI to obtain an API key

Installation

• Install Ruby version 3.3.x or 3.4.x with your package manager of choice (system, rvm, rbenv, homebrew, aptitude, etc.)

$ gem install bundler # install bundler (ruby app gem manager)
$ git clone https://github.com/jayywolff/weather-app.git # download the project with git clone
$ cd ./weather-app # set your working directory to the project root
$ bundle install # install ruby gem dependencies
$ bundle exec rails db:create # create dev/test databases
$ bundle exec rails dartsass:build # compile stylesheets (scss)
$ export WEATHER_API_KEY=mysecretkey # SET a local ENV var with your personal API key obtained from WeatherAPI

Add your WeatherAPI API key to the Rails dev/test credentials (optional)

optional if you dont want to set the WEATHER_API_KEY ENV var everytime you run the app/tests in a new terminal

# add your WeatherAPI key in the rails credentials
# entry should be in yml format, for example: `weather_api_key: mysecretkey`
$ bundle exec rails credentials:edit --environment development

# add a WeatherAPI key in the rails credentials for the test env
# entry should be in yml format, for example: `weather_api_key: mysecretkey`
# tests don't actually hit the api, so this can be any string value
$ bundle exec rails credentials:edit --environment test

Running the development environment application

$ bundle exec rails server # start up the dev server

Open localhost:3000 in your browser

Running Tests

App has been tested against ruby 3.3.6 and 3.4.1

$ bundle exec rspec