Thanks you guys! Got things working, but having some problems with GeoKit and Rails3. I'll have to do some more investigation on that front!
-- Melih O. http://www.onvural.net/melih On Dec 15, 7:19 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Simon Baumgartner wrote in post #968527: > > > A comment about your Location model: > > > You rarely need 'initialize' when creating new model instances (and in > > this case you don't). > > Good catch! But make that "never", not "rarely". ActiveRecord > constructors generally shouldn't be overridden. Instead, use before_ or > after_create callbacks to set values (as in your example). > > > The beauty of ActiveRecord is that it automagically gives you instance > > variables for all table columns. > > If you need any variables that are not a table column use > > attr_accessor :foo_bar > > > Also, for all geocoding needs I would usehttp://geokit.rubyforge.org/ > > Indeed. Also investigate Spatial Adapter, and consider PostGIS if > you're using PostgreSQL. (If you're not using PostgreSQL, you probably > should be. :) ) > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
