http://www.baconbear.com/articles/tag/actsaslocateable?tag=actsaslocateable en-us 40 <p>Introducing my 2nd adventure into Rails plugins: ActsAsLocateable!</p> <p>ActsAsLocateable is an easy way to give any model the ability to be found by location. For instance, say you have a model Store which is associated with a zip code indicating where that Store is located. To find all the stores within a specific radius of another ZipCode, you can do a</p> <pre> Store.find_within_radius(10, 12345) # Find all stores within 10 miles of zip code 12345 </pre> <p>Install ActsAsLocateable in the normal way</p> <pre> script/plugin install http://svn.baconbear.com/rails_plugins/acts_as_locateable/trunk/ </pre> <p>Be sure to read the associated README file after the install for details on installation, setup, and usage.</p> <p>ActsAsLocateable is based heavily on the <a href="http://zipcodesearch.rubyforge.org/">ZipCodeSearch plugin</a> by Doug Fales and utilizes much of the same code and data. Special thanks to Doug for making his code freely available!</p> Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:54:00 -0800 urn:uuid:5f8ec1d7-fe33-45aa-bf8f-1b8a8658367e Jeff http://www.baconbear.com/articles/2006/12/29/actsaslocateable-released rails ActsAsLocateable plugins