Problem
Trying to use the rake task for populating latitude and longitude details for addresses as described in the Web mashup projects book, gives the error about attempting to call private method.
Solution
Use the method save instead of update as suggested in the book.
Problem
Using the latest version of Geokit gives the error for undefined method ‘timeout’. This could happen if the gem/plugin didn’t modify the config/environment.rb file, and you had to copy the configuration values from an older version.
Solution
The configuration variable has changed in the latest version (1.5.0) from timeout to request_timeout, so change it in your config/environment.rb file as :
GeoKit::Geocoders::request_timeout = 3
Problem
You want to use flexigrid with a MySQL fields that contains carriage returns. As the flexigrid uses json it doesn’t work with carriage returns, and displays an empty page, instead of an error page.
Solution
In the page_name.json.erb file in the fields that has carriage returns make sure that you use to_json method as in the example below:
‘<%=fg_escape event.comments.to_json -%>‘,