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Apple Coding Assessment

Weather app that returns a current forecast given a valid address.

Requirements:

  • Must be done in Ruby on Rails
  • Accept an address as input
  • Retrieve forecast data for the given address. This should include, at minimum, the current temperature (Bonus points - Retrieve high/low and/or extended forecast)
  • Display the requested forecast details to the user
  • Cache the forecast details for 30 minutes for all subsequent requests by zip codes. Display indicator if result is pulled from cache.

Table of Contents

Prerequisites

The following tools are required to be installed on the system.

  • Github
  • Ruby [3.2.1]

Check out the repository

git clone [email protected]:organization/weather-app.git
cd weather-app

Enable Caching

By default caching is disabled. Run the following to toggle caching:

rails dev:cache

Add API key to credentials

Use an access token obtained from API Keys on the OpenWeather website after registration.

Open the credentials file for editing:

rails credentials:edit

Paste in the API key obtained above:

# Open Weather API
openweather_api_key: [your-api-key]

Install Gems

Run bundle install.

Start the Rails server

You can start the rails server using the command given below.

bundle exec rails s

And now you can visit the site with the URL http://localhost:3000

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