Co-Pilot - Points of Interest (POI) Microservice

poi-microservice is a Sinatra microservice as part of Co-Pilot.

Co-Pilot is a full stack application that allows users who are road tripping to keep track of all the cities and towns they will encounter on their journey. Information regarding the distance and time is displayed between each city. And upon clicking a particular city users can find weather, hotel, gas, food, and google maps information.

Live poi-mircoserive lin: https://poi-microservice.herokuapp.com/

Backend Rails API Repo: https://github.com/copilotroadtrip/CoPilotBackend

Frontend React Native Repo: https://github.com/copilotroadtrip/Co-Pilot

Contributors

Backend Team

• Matt Levy
• William Peterson

Frontend Team

• Saad Baradan
• Theo Bean

Tech Stack

• Ruby 2.4.1
• Sinatra 2.0.5
• Heroku

Setup

1. Install Ruby 2.4.1. For instructions on setting up multiple versions of Ruby, we reccomend rbenv

2. Install database system PostgreSQL.

3. From your terminal, clone down this repo:

git clone git@github.com:copilotroadtrip/CoPilotBackend.git

4. Install Ruby gem dependencies

bundle install

6. Database creation, migrations, and seed with data about points of interest

rake db:{create,migrate,seed}

7. Start your local Sinatra server

bundle exec shotgun

8. Start up your local Redis server

redis-server

Endpoints

POST https://poi-microservice.herokuapp.com/api/v1/build_trip

• Converts "steps data" (coming from Google Directions API) and populates CoPilotBackend database with relevant information about a trip.
• This was done to allow long running calculations to run asynchronously to allow a better user experience.

Required body:

{
  "step": "<step_info>",
  "token": "<token>"
}

Response:

• The response currently times out due to Heroku behavior for long running processes. However, the process still runs and populates the CoPilotBackend database correctly.