RGeo::ActiveRecord

RGeo::ActiveRecord is an optional RGeo module providing spatial extensions for ActiveRecord, as well as a set of helpers for writing spatial ActiveRecord adapters based on RGeo.

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This project is released as the ‘rgeo-ar` gem. It only works with ActiveRecord 4.1+. It works with this PostGIS ActiveRecord extension: github.com/neighborland/activerecord-postgis-adapter

Summary

RGeo is a key component for writing location-aware applications in the Ruby programming language. At its core is an implementation of the industry standard OGC Simple Features Specification, which provides data representations of geometric objects such as points, lines, and polygons, along with a set of geometric analysis operations. See the README for the “rgeo” gem for more information.

RGeo::ActiveRecord is an optional RGeo add-on module providing spatial extensions for ActiveRecord, as well as a set of helpers for writing spatial ActiveRecord adapters based on RGeo.

Installation

RGeo::ActiveRecord has the following requirements:

  • Ruby 2.0.0+

  • rgeo 0.3.20+

  • ActiveRecord 4.1.0+

  • arel 5.0.0+

Generally, ActiveRecord adapters which depend on this module should be installed as gems, and they will install this module automatically as a dependency. However, you can also install it manually as a gem:

gem install rgeo
gem install rgeo-ar

See the README for the “rgeo” gem, a required dependency, for further installation information.

Development and support

Documentation is available at dazuma.github.com/rgeo-activerecord/rdoc

Original source code is hosted on Github at github.com/dazuma/rgeo-activerecord

Contributions are welcome. Fork the project on Github.

Report bugs on Github issues at github.org/dazuma/rgeo-activerecord/issues

Support available on the rgeo-users google group at groups.google.com/group/rgeo-users

Contact the author at dazuma at gmail dot com.

Acknowledgments

RGeo is written by Daniel Azuma (www.daniel-azuma.com).

Development is supported by Pirq. (pirq.com).

License

Copyright 2010-2013 Daniel Azuma

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