README.md

Geocoder

Geocoder is a complete geocoding solution for Ruby. With Rails it adds geocoding (by street or IP address), reverse geocoding (finding street address based on given coordinates), and distance queries. It's as simple as calling geocode on your objects, and then using a scope like Venue.near("Billings, MT").

Please note that this README is for the current HEAD and may document features not present in the latest gem release. For this reason, you may want to instead view the README for your particular version.

Compatibility

• Supports multiple Ruby versions: Ruby 1.9.3, 2.x, JRuby, and Rubinius.
• Supports multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MongoDB (1.7.0 and higher).
• Supports Rails 3 and 4. If you need to use it with Rails 2 please see the rails2 branch (no longer maintained, limited feature set).
• Works very well outside of Rails, you just need to install either the json (for MRI) or json_pure (for JRuby) gem.

Rails 4.1 Note

Due to a change in ActiveRecord's count method you will need to use count(:all) to explicitly count all columns ("*") when using a near scope. Using near and calling count with no argument will cause exceptions in many cases.

Installation

Install Geocoder like any other Ruby gem:

gem install geocoder