similar to: Geokit - find within fuzzy locations

Hi all, I''m trying to use the excellent GeoKit plugin to geocode addresses entered by users. I use GeoKit to get latitude and longitude values, then plot these using Google Maps. The problem I have is that the maps produced tend to be slightly off where they should be. Nearby addresses seem to be grouped to one point, which suggests that the problem is in rounding the lat and lng values

hello.. i am currently trying to use :through to attach two of my models together using geokit. for some reason, i am running into a problem: ArgumentError: Unknown key(s): as i have two models, one that is geocoded, and one that belongs to that model. the models look like: ,----[ employer.rb ] | class Employer < ActiveRecord::Base | acts_as_mappable | before_validation_on_create

I am new to rails and have been scouring the web for the past two days trying to figure out 2 things. 1) I am currently using a form with 2 models. The first is person, the second is address. I attempted to duplicate the two models on one form as seen in Advanced Rails Recipes and Railscasts, and they work fine - except when there are validation issues on the address piece it just returns saying

Hi, after spending hours on getting geokit and ym4r running I don''t know how to do or how to getting a test running. I have try the tutorial from http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/179-ym4r but I don''t get it :(. Has sone one other tutorials he can recommend? Maybe someone knows were I did my mistake (I only want to show a fixed address, no database connection so far, pure

i''m trying geokit and loving it, but i''m seeing really odd stuff on distances, I''m wondering about the coordinates i''ve got in my DB. I don''t think they''re standard format, they look like this. east 6''41.6 north 45''24.8 Can anyone advise please ? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello generous coders, I''m having difficulty getting a couple of tests to pass. I have an address model which takes an address and with a callback on save and update passes the address to google''s geocoding service. The returned XML is parsed and saved to the address object: protected def geocode_address key = "mykey" url =

Hi, i''m trying to use the GeoKit plugin to calculate the distance between 2 points. So the idea is, i do a search for an article, and the results i want to order by distance. So i have a form where I enter the article (that im looking for) and my address. Then rails must find all articles that match with my query and order by address. So now, i have two models: Article and User. Articles

HI all i am a newbie ,and starting a rails 3 application and my application needs geokit plugin .so anybody knows how to install geokit plugin in rails 3 and using it with the application? I am using ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3.0.3 with mysql2. pls help.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send

Newbie here :) So, a friend mentioned that geokit is the way to go if I want to make a simple location based app. I basically want to make a list of locations so the app should allow me to Create a location, give it a name and an address along with the geo location information associated with it. (Geokit will take care of this last thing right?) I tried looking for sample apps but had no

Hello, My database structure consists of Store, Book, BookStore and Address as below. class Store < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :book_stores has_many :books, :through => :book_stores has_many :addresses acts_as_mappable :through => :addresses end class Address < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :store acts_as_mappable end class Book < ActiveRecord::Base has_many

I''m new to Rails3, and I''m just trying to get one last thing to work before I call it a night. The situation is the following (please if the code is horrible, just let me know, still learning): I want to log a dive. I might have a new location on that dive at which point I have to create a new Location, and then create the dive. A dive has_one location. A location has_many

I converted the rails geokit plugin to a merb plugin today. Anyone interested in testing it out? It seems to be working great for me. If so, where should I put it? I don''t have a blog up or anything right now. Been meaning to do that, but haven''t had the time. -Dusty Doris

Hi all Anybody knows any webapplictions presently using geokit plugin with rails 2.x or 3.x ? If yes pls send me the url pls. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

I have the following instruction that returns an array that I'm quite confused about. I can't even read it. Can someone shed some light as to how to reach into this array of hashes (that's what I can see) to get the location lat and lon? res = Geocoder.search(addy1) This is the res: [#<Geocoder::Result::Google:0x007fb46c345e18

Hello, I want to give ActiveResource a spin. I have all the code checked out from SVN in vendor/rails (yes, including ActiveResource). I''m trying to make sure it gets loaded. I did this in environment.rb: config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/activeresource/lib ) Unfortunately I still can''t use it. I have an ActiveResource derived model, Address: class

Is there a simple solution available that would allow me to take a ZIP Code from a user and then populate City and State fields based on that ZIP? Any kind of a plugin, for example? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to

Hey guys! Does anyone knows how to a ruby program communicate with the Google API, which one is written in Javascript ? I''ve heard something about a wrapper to do the communication, but i didn''t find anything yet. I know a plugin for rails can do that (geokit), but i don''t know how. There is a method (geocode) that use the javascript function to return the XML data

When I run rake db:migrate or rake -T I get these lines at the end: Finished in 0.000276 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors My Gemfile is: source ''http://rubygems.org'' gem ''rack'' gem ''rails'', ''3.0.9'' gem "acl9", ''0.12.0'' gem "fastercsv"#, :version =>

Hello everybody, I''m working with Version 3 of Google Maps JavaScript API, and I have the next code: In a layout of my application: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/ libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?

Hi, I am not totally sure what caused this but I just wanted to know if anything of this sort has been seen in the ext3 world. I did a fresh install of redhat 7.2 linux with kernel-2.4.9(we have some patches applied to this). I have root and boot filesystems as ext3 type. After running some tests the system gets into a strange state. I cannot move one file to another if that destination file