March SFPUG: PostGIS & Ruby

PostGIS & Ruby: How to RoR Your Spatial Queries

Eric Theise will be presenting PostGIS, Spatial Queries, and Ruby.

Hosting is provided by Engine Yard.

Eric will cover aspects of PostGIS which are interesting both to PostgreSQL DBAs and Ruby developers:

• Spatial Queries and why you should care about them

• How to run Spatial Queries from Ruby on Rails

• Displaying spatial results using common Ruby toolsets

• Time permitting: new range support for spatial queries in PostgreSQL 9.2