Instructions to run Earthquake Information

This README would normally document whatever steps are necessary to get the application up and running.

• Step 1: Clone the project git clone git@github.com:chai2/earthquake-info.git

• Step 2: cd earthquake-info

• Step 3: Install required gems by using bundle install

• Step 4: Create database and run migrations. We are using sqlite for basic setup rake db:create then rake db:migrate

• Step 5: Fetch initial data from Data Source using rake pull_data (This will fetch the data and gets county information from Geocoder using Google maps api)

• Step 6: Pull data from data source every 15 mins using whenever --update-crontab . This commands writes the cronjob to run the rake task to pull data every 15 mins.

• Step 7: Start the server using rails s

• Step 8: Visit the localhost http://localhost:3000/ returns 10 largest regions with total_magnitude past 30 days

• Step 9: Make a sample request to get 20 results past 10 days using http://localhost:3000/regions?count=20&days=10

Gems used:

• Whenever gem is used to update cronjobs
• rails_param gem validates the request parameters and returns an exception