rails-geocoder 0.8.2 → 0.8.3

data/CHANGELOG.rdoc

@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 Per-release changes to Geocoder.
 
+== 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.
+
 == 0.8.1 (2009 Oct 8)
 
 * Extract XML-fetching code from Geocoder.search and place in Geocoder._fetch_xml (for ease of mocking).

data/README.rdoc

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ or as a gem:
 
 == 2. Configure
 
+First, you must get a Google Maps API key (to get one go to http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html) and store it in a constant:
+
+  GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY = "..."
+
 To add geocoding features to a class:
 
   geocoded_by :location

data/Rakefile

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ begin
     gem.summary     = %Q{Add geocoding functionality to Rails models.}
     gem.description = %Q{Geocoder adds object geocoding and database-agnostic distance calculations to Ruby on Rails. It does not rely on proprietary database functions so finding geocoded objects in a given area is easily done using out-of-the-box MySQL or even SQLite.}
     gem.email       = "alex@alexreisner.com"
-    gem.homepage    = "http://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder"
+    gem.homepage    = "http://code.alexreisner.com/code/geocoder.html"
     gem.authors     = ["Alex Reisner"]
     # gem is a Gem::Specification... see http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20 for additional settings
   end

data/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.2
+0.8.3

data/lib/geocoder.rb

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ module Geocoder
   
   ##
   # Fetch coordinates based on the object's location.
-  # Returns an array <tt>[lat,lon]</tt>.search
+  # Returns an array <tt>[lat,lon]</tt>.
   #
   def fetch_coordinates
     location = send(self.class.geocoder_options[:method_name])
@@ -207,25 +207,25 @@ module Geocoder
   
   ##
   # Query Google for geographic information about the given phrase.
-  # Returns the XML response as a hash. This method is not intended for
-  # general use (prefer Geocoder.search).
-  #
-  # Google's XML document has incorrect encoding (says UTF-8 but is actually
-  # ISO 8859-1). We have to fix this or REXML won't parse it correctly.
-  # This may be fixed in the future; see the bug report at:
-  # http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=233
   #
   def self.search(query)
     if doc = _fetch_xml(query)
-      REXML::Document.new(doc.sub('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'))
+      REXML::Document.new(doc)
     end
   end
   
   ##
   # Request an XML geo search result from Google.
+  # This method is not intended for general use (prefer Geocoder.search).
   #
   def self._fetch_xml(query)
-    params = { :q => query, :output => "xml" }
+    params = {
+      :q      => query,
+      :key    => GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY,
+      :output => "xml",
+      :sensor => "false",
+      :oe     => "utf8"
+    }
     url    = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?" + params.to_query
     
     # Query geocoder and make sure it responds quickly.

data/rails-geocoder.gemspec

@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{rails-geocoder}
-  s.version = "0.8.2"
+  s.version = "0.8.3"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Alex Reisner"]
-  s.date = %q{2009-10-12}
+  s.date = %q{2009-10-23}
   s.description = %q{Geocoder adds object geocoding and database-agnostic distance calculations to Ruby on Rails. It does not rely on proprietary database functions so finding geocoded objects in a given area is easily done using out-of-the-box MySQL or even SQLite.}
   s.email = %q{alex@alexreisner.com}
   s.extra_rdoc_files = [
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
      "test/geocoder_test.rb",
      "test/test_helper.rb"
   ]
-  s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder}
+  s.homepage = %q{http://code.alexreisner.com/code/geocoder.html}
   s.rdoc_options = ["--charset=UTF-8"]
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
   s.rubygems_version = %q{1.3.5}

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: rails-geocoder
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: 0.8.2
+  version: 0.8.3
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Alex Reisner
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2009-10-12 00:00:00 -04:00
+date: 2009-10-23 00:00:00 -04:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ files:
 - test/geocoder_test.rb
 - test/test_helper.rb
 has_rdoc: true
-homepage: http://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder
+homepage: http://code.alexreisner.com/code/geocoder.html
 licenses: []
 
 post_install_message: