nybblr / somewhere

Serialized address class for use with Rails models. Like it should be.

Somewhere

This gem was developed for use in a number of Rails projects. I tend to use addresses all over the place, so this gem handles all the nitpicky class level details for an address object.

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Subsection A: Why Somewhere?

If you're not somewhere, you're nowhere. That's a different gem.

Usage

From your ActiveRecord model, simply call the address method:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
	# Example usages
	address

	address :billing

	address :billing, :postal_code => :zip, :include_prefix => false

end

Once you instantiate an Address object, you can convert to a hash:

address.to_hash
address.to_hash :exclude => [:country]

Or you can convert to a string:

address.to_s
address.to_s :country => false
address.to_s :delimiter => "\n"
address.to_s :multiline