ror_gmaps's Introduction

RoR_gmaps

Requirements: Ruby 1.8.7 Ruby on Rails 3.2.13 Install gmaps4rails: Refernece: https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails Creating a Demo App of Google Maps with Ruby on Rails

Steps Takens to Create This app

Use the following code to generate new ruby on rails app
```
 rails new gmap
```
edit gmap/Gemfile
```
 add gem 'gmaps4rails'
```
copy things gmaps4rails into asset

cd into gmap $rails generate gmaps4rails:install
modify app/views/layouts/application.html.erb to add required library

between body and html tag add
<%= yield :scripts %>
Include css tag in application.html.erb in header
```
 <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'gmaps4rails' %> 
```

Create a character model

 rails g scaffold character name:string address:string activity:string longitude:float latitude:float gmaps:boolean

Modify the user model to add the following (app/models/user.rb)

 acts_as_gmappable
 def gmaps4rails_address
 #describe how to retrieve the address from your model, if you use directly a db column, you can dry your code, see wiki
 address
 end

Add the following line to migration (db/migrate/_____create_character.rb)

 add_column :character, :latitude,  :float #you can change the name, see wiki
 add_column :character, :longitude, :float #you can change the name, see wiki
 add_column :character, :gmaps, :boolean #not mandatory, see wiki

Include gmaps object into the controller (app/controllers/users_controller.rb)
```
 @json = User.all.to_gmaps4rails
```
Include the gmaps into the view (app/views/users/index.html.erb)
```
<%= gmaps4rails(@json) %>
```
Remove the following file
```
public/index.html
```
modify routers.rb add
```
root :to => 'characters#index'
```
update db
```
rake db:migrate
```