Whereabouts is a Rails plugin that generates a polymorphic address model to be associated to ActiveRecord models.

To install on Rails add this to your Gemfile

gem 'whereabouts'

Generate the base address class and migration

rails g address

Run migrations

rake db:migrate

If you have the Ruby Geocoder specified in your project's Gemfile, adding {:geocode => true} to the has_whereabouts definition will automatically geocode and populate the latitude and longitude fields for the record.

class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_whereabouts
end

t = Thing.new
t.build_address

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_whereabouts :shipping_address
  has_whereabouts :mailing_address
end

f = Foo.new
f.build_shipping_address
f.build_mailing_address

# Add :validate => [] to the option
# hash on the call to has_whereabouts.
# Options available in the array are
# :line1, :line2, :city, :state, :zip
class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_whereabouts :location, {:validate => [:city, :state, :zip]}
end

# Must have Ruby Geocoder installed
# and configured.  Will populate the
# latitude and longitude attributes
# on the Address
class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_whereabouts :location, {:geocode => true}
end

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright (c) 2017 Nicholas Fine, released under the MIT license