rails_coding_challenge

Weather comparison app in 3 hours

A simple Rails application that compares the weather of 5 different cities.

Approach

• Make an intial API call (with multiple city ID's) to retrieve the information
• Parse the JSON response and display this simply in the views
• The JSON has key "item", and the value is with a list all the cities data
• The JSON is parsed and the data from the cities displayed in the view
• The cities with the best weather attributes are displayed

Improvements

• use an input form to let users choose own cities (add an API call to match input city name to id)
• make a recommendation (unfortunately I ran out of time)
• style the page
• split the data onto several HTML pages