Hello,
This post is to announce a new release of the Spatial Adapter for Rails,
which is a plugin that adds support for columns of geometric types
(point,
linestring, polygon,etc…) to ActiveRecord. Currently the only
supported
databases are MySql and PostGIS.
With this release, geometric columns should behave like columns of any
other
basic types in all areas: migration, data access, dumping in ruby schema
mode…
For example, here is how you would define a “restaurants” table in a
migration, along with a spatial index on the geometric column:
ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
create_table “restaurants”, :force => true do |t|
t.column “data”, :string
t.column “geom”, :point, :null=>false, :srid => 123
end
add_index “restaurants”, “geom”, :spatial=>true
end
Here is the model to use it:
class Restaurant < ActiveRecord::Base
end
And you would access the geom column in the following way:
rt = Restaurant.find_first
puts rt.geom.x #access the geom column like any other
Documentation and instructions for installation are available at
thepochisuperstarmegashow.com .
It is distributed under the MIT license.
guilhem