Weather Application

Setup Instructions

1. Make sure you have ruby 3.2.x installed.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Run bundle install to install all the required gems.
4. Run bin/setup to setup your local environment
5. Run bin/dev to start the server.

Running Tests

1. Run rake rspec to run all the tests.

Rubocop

1. Run rubocop to run rubocop.

Points of interest

• You can toggle caching on and off by running rails dev:cache
• The requirement to cache based on zip code does not work well with the OpenWeatherApi because it would require multiple api calls to ensure every query has an associated zip code. I didn't realize this until I had already built an API wrapper so I decided to cache by query instead.
• I used the new Data class to store the data returned from the API. This requires ruby 3.2.x
• I used Rails credentials to store the API key. To add your own API Key you can run rails credentials:edit to use your own API key.