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SF Activity Connector

Activities:

• Coffee("need a boost?")

• Hiking("need to get moving?")

• Dinner/Drinks("out on the town")

• Pamper("treat yo' self")

• Movies/Theatre("catch a show")

• Points of Interest("be a tourist")

Setting up Bower:

Require gem:

gem 'bower-rails', '~> 0.11.0'

In bower.json

{
  "name": "activity-connector",
  "dependencies": {
    "jquery": "latest",
    "materialize": "latest",
    "d3": "latest",
    "underscore": "latest"
  }
}

Create a .bowerrc file:

{
  "directory": "vendor/assets/components"
}

In command line: 'bower install'

In the class application of config/application.rb:

config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor", "assets", "components")

In app/assets/javascripts/application.js:

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require turbolinks
//= require_tree .
//= require materialize
//
// Bower packages
//= require d3
//= require underscore
//

In app/assets/stylesheets/application.css:

*= require materialize

Weather API:

In .gitignore:

.env

Add a file called .env to project root.

In .env, add secret keys/value (e.g. KEY=837hsf7393&3873sjyi83 ) Do 'git status' in the command line to make sure that .env is not being tracked and added to the repo. The key/values need to be transfered separately and entered in as environment variables when deployed to Heroku.

In Gemfile, include gem 'dotenv-rails', :require => 'dotenv/rails-now' and under development include gem 'dotenv-rails'.

Under Bundler in config/application.rb:

Dotenv::Railtie.load

Create weather concern and include HTTParty. Create instance variables from parsed json data.

Instantiate a new instance of the weather class in the controller.

In the view, include the instance variables.