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Ruby

nishantr
nishantr
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Posted by nishantr
nishantr
6,326 Points

weather application in ruby on rails

I want to build a weather application in ruby on rails. can anybody suggest me a procedure to develop a weather app?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'm not sure how many features you need, but its not too hard in Ruby or Rails. I usually start with the meat and the potatoes, how are you going to get a users input, query against weather, and what are you going to do with that information.

I built this a few months ago: http://weather.titanhomesllc.com. In this case, they were just worried about tracking wind speeds. So this checks the weather every 15-20 or so minutes, and if the current or forecasted weather is over 10mph, it will save that to the database. And that based on criteria, it may or may not send a text message as well.

I just initialized the api call in a cron job when rails initializes, and from there the rest was pretty "rails-y".