CHANGELOG.rdoc

Changelog¶ ↑

Per-release changes to Geocoder.

0.9.10 (2011 Mar 9)¶ ↑

• Fix broken scopes (github.com/mikepinde).

• Fix broken Ruby 1.9 and JRuby compatibility (don’t require json gem).

0.9.9 (2011 Mar 9)¶ ↑

• Add support for IP address geocoding via FreeGeoIp.net.

• Add support for Yahoo PlaceFinder geocoding API.

• Add support for custom geocoder data handling by passing a block to geocoded_by or reverse_geocoded_by.

• Add Rack::Request#location method for geocoding user’s IP address.

• Change gem name to geocoder (no more rails-geocoder).

• Gem now works outside of Rails.

• DEPRECATION: fetch_coordinates no longer takes an argument.

• DEPRECATION: fetch_address no longer takes an argument.

• DEPRECATION: Geocoder.search now returns a single result instead of an array.

• DEPRECATION: fetch_coordinates! has been superceded by geocode (then save your object manually).

• DEPRECATION: fetch_address! has been superceded by reverse_geocode (then save your object manually).

• Fix: don’t die when trying to get coordinates with a nil address (github.com/zmack).

0.9.8 (2011 Feb 8)¶ ↑

• Include geocode:all Rake task in gem (was missing!).

• Add Geocoder.search for access to Google’s full response.

• Add ability to configure Google connection timeout.

• Emit warnings on Google connection problems and errors.

• Refactor: insert Geocoder into ActiveRecord via Railtie.

0.9.7 (2011 Feb 1)¶ ↑

• Add reverse geocoding (reverse_geocoded_by).

• Prevent exception (uninitialized constant Geocoder::Net) when net/http not already required (github.com/sleepycat).

• Refactor: split monolithic Geocoder module into several smaller ones.

0.9.6 (2011 Jan 19)¶ ↑

• Fix incompatibility with will_paginate gem.

• Include table names in GROUP BY clause of nearby scope to avoid ambiguity in joins (github.com/matchu).

0.9.5 (2010 Oct 15)¶ ↑

• Fix broken PostgreSQL compatibility (now 100% compatible).

• Switch from Google’s XML to JSON geocoding API.

• Separate Rails 2 and Rails 3-compatible branches.

• Don’t allow :conditions hash in ‘options’ argument to ‘nearbys’ method (was deprecated in 0.9.3).

0.9.4 (2010 Aug 2)¶ ↑

• Google Maps API key no longer required (uses geocoder v3).

0.9.3 (2010 Aug 2)¶ ↑

• Fix incompatibility with Rails 3 RC 1.

• Deprecate ‘options’ argument to ‘nearbys’ method.

• Allow inclusion of ‘nearbys’ in Arel method chains.

0.9.2 (2010 Jun 3)¶ ↑

• Fix LIMIT clause bug in PostgreSQL (reported by github.com/kenzie).

0.9.1 (2010 May 4)¶ ↑

• Use scope instead of named_scope in Rails 3.

0.9.0 (2010 Apr 2)¶ ↑

• Fix bug in PostgreSQL support (caused “PGError: ERROR: column ”distance“ does not exist”), reported by github.com/developish.

0.8.9 (2010 Feb 11)¶ ↑

• Add Rails 3 compatibility.

• Avoid querying Google when query would be an empty string.

0.8.8 (2009 Dec 7)¶ ↑

• Automatically select a less accurate but compatible distance algorithm when SQLite database detected (fixes SQLite incompatibility).

0.8.7 (2009 Nov 4)¶ ↑

• Added Geocoder.geographic_center method.

• Replaced _get_coordinates class method with read_coordinates instance method.

0.8.6 (2009 Oct 27)¶ ↑

• The fetch_coordinates method now assigns coordinates to attributes (behaves like fetch_coordinates! used to) and fetch_coordinates! both assigns and saves the attributes.

• Added geocode:all rake task.

0.8.5 (2009 Oct 26)¶ ↑

• Avoid calling deprecated method from within Geocoder itself.

0.8.4 (2009 Oct 23)¶ ↑

• Deprecate find_near class method in favor of near named scope.

0.8.3 (2009 Oct 23)¶ ↑

• Update Google URL query string parameter to reflect recent changes in Google’s API.

0.8.2 (2009 Oct 12)¶ ↑

• Allow a model’s geocoder search string method to be something other than an ActiveRecord attribute.

• Clean up documentation.