README.md

How to use

Clone the repo https://github.com/Iphytech/country-info.git to your computer

change to the project directory

NB: There is no database (because we ain't going to make use of it).

go to the terminal and run bundle or bundle install

We are making use of excon for the restful api calls - Read more about it here (https://github.com/excon/excon) And we are consuming data from Rapid APi endpoint

For yuou to be able to use it, you have to signup on their website https://rapidapi.com/ and get the api key

We are going to use Figaro gem to save our credentials - See the documentation (https://github.com/laserlemon/figaro)

To use it

Got to the terminal and run bundle exec figaro install, This creates a commented config/application.yml file and adds it to your .gitignore. Add your own configuration to this file and you're done!

Go inside the application.yml file and add your rapudapi key like this

api_key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Start the project and test what we have built

rails s or rails server

If you want to see the full response returned

Go to your controller in the search action and add this

 render :json =>  @country