How to use an API to get air-quality ozone weather data with Ruby on Rails
Key Features
- Build your own air-quality monitoring website
- Build web apps with Ruby on Rails
Book Description
Ruby on Rails can seem overwhelming at first, but it doesn't have to be. The author walks you through this course step-by-step and you'll be building your first web app in minutes. You'll be amazed at how quick and easy it is to create very professional-looking websites, even if you have no programming or web design experience at all.
Watch over his shoulder as he builds a cool ozone air-quality monitoring weather app step-by-step right in front of you. You'll follow along and build your own copy. By the time we're finished, you'll have a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails and how to use it to build awesome web apps.
The course contains 28 videos and is just over 2 hours long. You don't need any special knowledge or software to take this course, though any experience with HTML or CSS is a plus. You don't even need to know the Ruby programming language. We walk you through everything.
Ruby on Rails is a great web development tool and learning it has never been this easy.
What you will learn
- Build a cool ozone air-quality monitoring weather app that pulls ozone air-quality weather data from a third-party government API
- Learn how to use the free API in your app throughout the course
- Style a website using the popular Bootstrap CSS framework
Who this book is for
This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn to make web apps with Ruby on Rails.
