YM4R anyone here use it?

Rails
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Hello,
I just installed the plugin to help me display google maps in my rails
application. I checked out the site, but am having trouble understanding
what is what etc…(im slow in the head)

i am going through the code and know that my ruby skills is infant
compared to what is going on. my main question is does YM4R have a
function that i can use to pass in an address and return me a google
map?

if not, i can use another example i found online that fetches the
latitude and longitude after giving it a address, and then i can just
pass the lat and long to YM4R to get the google map.

thanks.

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On 8/22/06, koloa [email protected] wrote:

Hello,
I just installed the plugin to help me display google maps in my rails
application. I checked out the site, but am having trouble understanding
what is what etc…(im slow in the head)

i am going through the code and know that my ruby skills is infant
compared to what is going on. my main question is does YM4R have a
function that i can use to pass in an address and return me a google
map?

No, you need to geocode the address first, although Ym4r does come
with google/yahoo geocoding methods.

3

hi snacks, what does one do with these geocoding methods that are
available with the plugin?

snacktime wrote:

On 8/22/06, koloa [email protected] wrote:

Hello,
I just installed the plugin to help me display google maps in my rails
application. I checked out the site, but am having trouble understanding
what is what etc…(im slow in the head)

i am going through the code and know that my ruby skills is infant
compared to what is going on. my main question is does YM4R have a
function that i can use to pass in an address and return me a google
map?

No, you need to geocode the address first, although Ym4r does come
with google/yahoo geocoding methods.

4

On 8/22/06, koloa [email protected] wrote:

hi snacks, what does one do with these geocoding methods that are
available with the plugin?

There are samples in the documentation. I don’t have a sample handy
as I used it once but we are using the perl version now.

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snacktime wrote:

On 8/22/06, koloa [email protected] wrote:

hi snacks, what does one do with these geocoding methods that are
available with the plugin?

There are samples in the documentation. I don’t have a sample handy
as I used it once but we are using the perl version now.

Here is a sample where I pass a zip code only:

geocode = Geocoding::get(order.zip_code)
       #Check to see if it was a good result or not!
       if geocode.status == Geocoding::GEO_SUCCESS then
          ...
          #Get the coords and store them or create a marker with

them.
order.latitude = geocode[0].latitude
order.longitude = geocode[0].longitude
order.save
…
else
#You may have a bad zip/address
…
end

You then can create your markers with the lat/long coords. I think you
need the Gem for the geocode functions (separate from the plugin)

Hope this helps. On his website (YM4R) he has two tutorials that are
extremely helpful.

Michael