Sweater Weather

Background and Description

Sweater Weather is a backend application that exposes a series of endpoints for a front end team. The endpoints will contain information that will allow a user to see the curent weather, as well as the forecasted weather at the destination, and travel time to reach the destination.

Requirements and Setup

Ruby/Rails

Ruby 2.7.2
Rails 5.2.6.3

Setup

Clone this repo. On your local machine, open the terminal and enter the following command:

$ git clone git@github.com:croixk/sweater_weather.git

You can now enter the project directory $ cd sweater_weather
Now, install the required gems using $ bundle install
Run database migrations with $ rails rake db:{drop,create,migrate,seed}
Before consuming the APIs, you will need to start the local server $ rails s

APIs utilized

This project utilizes the following public APIs - these APIs require are free, but do require registration for a key

Endpoints

This project exposes the following endpoints for a front end team

Retrieve weather for a city

GET /api/v1/forecast?location=denver,co
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

Background image for a city

GET /api/v1/backgrounds?location=denver,co
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

Register User

POST /api/v1/users
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

Login

POST /api/v1/sessions
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

Road Trip

POST /api/v1/road_trip
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json

croixk / sweater_weather