Ruby Geocoding Quick Start Guide - QuotaGuard
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Installation
When you sign up with QuotaGuard on Heroku, you will be provided with a unique username and password that you can use when configuring your proxy service in your application:
http://username:password@proxy.quotaguard.com:9292
We recommend you store the connection string in an environment variable QUOTAGUARD_URL to maintain compatibility with platforms like Heroku.
You can test your proxy setup using curl:
$ curl -x username:password@proxy.quotaguard.com:9292 http://www.google.com/
Integration
Ruby Geocoder is the leading geocoding solution for Ruby and Rails and works seamlessly with QuotaGuard.
Simply add your authenticated connection string in to the geocoder initializer.
# config/initializers/geocoder.rb
Geocoder.configure(
...
:http_proxy => ENV["QUOTAGUARD_URL"],
:timeout => 5
)