The word lieu originally comes from the Latin locus, meaning place, and its meaning has stayed true to its origins ever since.

Simple Ruby wrapper for the Google Places API.

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Ruby support:

• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 2.0.0

Installation

Install via Rubygems

gem install lieu

or add to your Gemfile

gem 'lieu'

Configuration

API methods are available as module methods

Lieu.configure do |c|
  c.api_endpoint = 'http://newendpoint/'
  c.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  c.sensor = true
end

or as client instance methods

Lieu::Client.new(
    api_endpoint: 'http://newendpoint/',
    api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    sensor: true
)

The sensor parameter can be set globally (default to false) or can be provided for every request by passing the optional parameter sensor: true.

Authentication

Lieu only supports authentication via an API key.

You can request one following these steps.

Usage

place = Lieu.details('CmRYAAAA...')
puts place.name
# => "Google Sydney"

places = Lieu.text_search('Google Sydney')
places.first.formatted_address
# => "529 Kent Street, Sydney NSW, Australia"

# etc…

Features

Lieu supports all the Google Places API methods:

• Search
• Details
• Actions
• Photos
• Autocomplete
• Query autocomplete

Complete Lieu public API's documentation here.

Similar libraries

• google_places

Versioning

Lieu follows the principles of semantic versioning.

1. Patch level releases contain only bug fixes.
2. Minor releases contain backward-compatible new features.
3. Major new releases contain backwards-incompatible changes to the public API.

Contributing

Pull Requests are welcome !

Please refer to the Contributing guide for more details on how to run the test suite and to contribute.

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 Aylic Petit

Released under the terms of the MIT licence. See the LICENSE file for more details.