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I'm wondering if anyone out there has worked with Google Maps API with Rails 3. I'm looking for launching ideas, gems, plugins etc.

I played around with ym4r-gm plugin for several hours today, with not much luck. Have you played with this API on rails 3 yet?

Thanks in advance!

Jon Seigel
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Just fyi, I made https://rubygems.org/gems/gmaps4rails which is a useful wrapper with several options.

apneadiving
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YM4R doesn't offer much beyond a few wrappers of the API functions. I used YM4R for a while but then ditched it in favour of using the Google Maps API directly (from JavaScript). Perhaps it's an option you could consider too?

Alex Korban
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Cartographer plug-in supports Rails 3+ ,

It has been re-written to work for huge number of markers and clusters

it integrates pretty well with google maps v3 and rails 3 , http://grati.la/cartorbflw

nick
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  • The link above was forked from the original, and is missing one key line the README document. I suggest cloning this instead [https://github.com/joshuamiller/cartographer/tree/master/lib/v3/cartographer] https://github.com/joshuamiller/cartographer/tree/master/lib/v3/cartographer – Kirill Aug 01 '11 at 19:42
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there is GMaps v3 gem for Rails 3 (also 2.3) called BHM Google Maps didn't have much luck with it, but you can give it a try

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it all depends what you want to do I use this as a gem "https://github.com/apneadiving/Google-Maps-for-Rails" and works wonderful I started learning rails a few days I go and I got it up and running in like 20min.

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you can always check out ruby toolbox for current status of gems because some become inactive over time.Also, decide which gems to use depending on application.
Now GMaps-for-Rails is currently widely used.

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