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Simple Rails application to lookup weather data by zipcode.

Weather data will be cached for 30 mintues per zip code.

Weather API

Instead of using an external API that would require the evaluator to register an account with I chose to include an API that will generate random weather data. Weather API is located at app/api/v1/national_weather_service and accessed via GET at http://localhost:3000/api/v1/national_weather_service/for_zipcode

It returns a random set of data. Due to the random nature it does not bother to do anything with the passed in paramater(zipcode).

This returns a JSON payload containing:

{
    temperature: {
        low: -14,
        high: 103,
        current: -5
    },
    temperature_unit: "fahrenheit",
    zip_code: "24462-5263"
}

Responds to GET /api/v1/national_weather_service/for_zipcode

Running

This is a standard rails application, so you can access it like any other application.

• create config/master.key (806dadeda5840c69ed2d3e2ea7840054)
• bundle install
• rails db:migrate
• bin/dev
• http://localhost:3000
• http://localhost:3000/api/v1/national_weather_service/for_zipcode