dennmart / quakeapi

Simple API for displaying earthquake info

This is just a simple Sinatra app that fetches earthquake information from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-M1.txt and can be fetched through an API.

Local Setup

• The app uses PostgreSQL. You will need to create a database for your development and test environments.

CREATE DATABASE quakeapi_development;
CREATE DATABASE quakeapi_test;

• Make sure tests are passing correctly by running rake spec.

• There's a Rackup file already included, so you can start the app by running rackup config.ru.

• To import earthquake information from http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-M1.txt, run rake quakeapi:fetch_new. You can run this at any time, and it will only import new earthquake information.

Heroku Setup Tips

• Make sure you set up a database with heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev and establish it as your primary database with heroku pg:promote HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (where HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL is the setting that Heroku provided when setting up the database add-on). You can find more info in Heroku's PostgreSQL docs

• To continuously add new earthquake information, you can set up Heroku Scheduler to run the rake quakeapi:fetch_new task automatically.