README

A simple weather forecasting application.

Ruby 3.0.0
Rails 7.0.4

Requirements

• take an address as an input (may need a separate geo-coding API to get latlong coordinates)
• at minimum, retrieve the current forecast
• bonus to get the high/low and/or extended forecast
• display the forecast to the user
• cache forecast details for 30mins for all subsquent requests by zip codes
• display an indicator if result is pulled from cache
• include unit tests
• detailed comments and documentation
• include Decomposition of objects in the documentation (activity diagram or sequence diagram)
• include design patterns (where/if applicable)
• scalability considerations
• naming conventions
• encapsulation
• dry/ abstact code

APIs

Geoapify - retrieves the latitude and logitude of an street address.

Tomorrow.io - accepts latitude and longitude for location and a timestep for each API . returns a plethora of weather information including weather icons.

TO DOs for futher development

• see if # frozen_string_literal: true is still needed for ruby-3.1
• upgrade to ruby 3.1
• clean up Gemfile
• get Tomorrow.io icons rendering on the index page
• fix turbo_stream bug
• add other weather data from Tomorrow.io