Maps, Geolocation, and GeoSearch in Rails

Maps, geolocation, and geosearch are a common feature for web apps these days. You'll learn how to implement these maps and geo features in your Rails app.

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6 Lessons | 1h 39m | Intermediate

17m

Geocoding, Geolocation and Search with Geocoder + Google Maps APIs

Aug 01, 2017

Geocode (or geolocate) addresses using the geocoder gem along with the Google Maps APIs and then use it to search your database by location

19m

How to use Google Maps and Markers

Aug 29, 2017 Pro

Using the Gmaps.js library, we can really easily add Google Maps to our Rails applications

22m

Geo-spatial Search with Geocoder and Google Maps

Sep 12, 2017 Pro

This episode, we'll clone Yelp / Airbnb's geosearch functionality using the Geocoder gem

13m

Geo-spatial Search with Searchkick and ElasticSearch

Sep 26, 2017 Pro

Index and search your models by geolocation using Searchkick and Elasticsearch

15m

Making GeoSearch smooth with AJAX

Oct 11, 2017 Pro

Cleaning up the rough edges and adding some polish to geosearch using AJAX

11m

How to use the Browser Geolocation API with Rails

Mar 08, 2021 Pro

The browser has a built-in Geolocation API that you can use to get the user's location (with permission) in Stimulus and use it with Rails

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