#Stock Quotes App

As part of the Deployment module in my NCI post-grad we were given the following exercise:

1. Develop a simple web page that has a text entry field and a button on it.
2. A text entry field should accept a stock symbol, e.g. IBM, INTL etc.
3. Upon clicking the button the page will then display the price of the symbol from any one of the well-known finance pages, e.g. Yahoo, Google.
4. Do something "cool" for the additional 2 marks.

##My solution:

I just deployed a very simple ruby on rails app to Heroku. When a submit button is clicked a query is sent to yahoo's financial info API and then if the symbol exists the current price is returned.

The something "cool", was a very (extremely!) simple visualisation using a JavaScript picked up from I-forget-where and modified slightly to return a cloud of particles - the number of which are proportional to the value of the stock returned.

##Check out my live app here: http://hollow-summer-9555.herokuapp.com/stocks