Per-release changes to Geocoder.
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Include geocode:all Rake task in gem (was missing!).
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Add Geocoder.search for access to Google’s full response.
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Add ability to configure Google connection timeout.
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Emit warnings on Google connection problems and errors.
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Refactor: insert Geocoder into ActiveRecord via Railtie.
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Add reverse geocoding (
reverse_geocoded_by
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Prevent exception (uninitialized constant Geocoder::Net) when net/http not already required (sleepycat).
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Refactor: split monolithic Geocoder module into several smaller ones.
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Fix incompatibility with will_paginate gem.
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Include table names in GROUP BY clause of nearby scope to avoid ambiguity in joins (matchu).
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Fix broken PostgreSQL compatibility (now 100% compatible).
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Switch from Google’s XML to JSON geocoding API.
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Separate Rails 2 and Rails 3-compatible branches.
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Don’t allow :conditions hash in ‘options’ argument to ‘nearbys’ method (was deprecated in 0.9.3).
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Google Maps API key no longer required (uses geocoder v3).
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Fix incompatibility with Rails 3 RC 1.
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Deprecate ‘options’ argument to ‘nearbys’ method.
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Allow inclusion of ‘nearbys’ in Arel method chains.
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Fix LIMIT clause bug in PostgreSQL (reported by kenzie).
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Use scope instead of named_scope in Rails 3.
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Fix bug in PostgreSQL support (caused “PGError: ERROR: column ”distance“ does not exist”), reported by developish.
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Add Rails 3 compatibility.
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Avoid querying Google when query would be an empty string.
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Automatically select a less accurate but compatible distance algorithm when SQLite database detected (fixes SQLite incompatibility).
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Added Geocoder.geographic_center method.
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Replaced _get_coordinates class method with read_coordinates instance method.
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The fetch_coordinates method now assigns coordinates to attributes (behaves like fetch_coordinates! used to) and fetch_coordinates! both assigns and saves the attributes.
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Added geocode:all rake task.
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Avoid calling deprecated method from within Geocoder itself.
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Deprecate
find_near
class method in favor ofnear
named scope.
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Update Google URL query string parameter to reflect recent changes in Google’s API.
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Allow a model’s geocoder search string method to be something other than an ActiveRecord attribute.
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Clean up documentation.
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Extract XML-fetching code from Geocoder.search and place in Geocoder._fetch_xml (for ease of mocking).
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Add tests for coordinate-fetching instance methods.
First release.