Ruby on Rails

Simon Baumgartner wrote in post #968527:
> A comment about your Location model:
>
> You rarely need 'initialize' when creating new model instances (and in
> this case you don't).

Good catch! But make that "never", not "rarely". ActiveRecord
constructors generally shouldn't be overridden. Instead, use before_ or
after_create callbacks to set values (as in your example).

> The beauty of ActiveRecord is that it automagically gives you instance
> variables for all table columns.
> If you need any variables that are not a table column use
> attr_accessor :foo_bar
>
> Also, for all geocoding needs I would use http://geokit.rubyforge.org/

Indeed. Also investigate Spatial Adapter, and consider PostGIS if
you're using PostgreSQL. (If you're not using PostgreSQL, you probably
should be. :) )

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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