Are there any good googlemaps plugins for rails?

Question

There are some good geocoding plugins (e.g. geokit) but can you recommend a googlemaps plugin for "the view" in rails?

I used YM4R/GM before but I don't know if its still up to date...

Answer 1

Looking on Github I found google_maps plugin. I haven't tried it but it seems ok.

Answer 2

I've always just used GeoKit for all things GoogleMaps... it's a little old, but all the source code for "Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails" is available at http://googlemapsbook.com/source/. It should walk you through pretty well on how to write the code for the front end. Advanced Rails Recipes also has some great code recipes on building geocoded points into GoogleMaps.