Using Google Maps API (v3) with Rails (5.2)

Paulo Belo
9 min readSep 22, 2018

Step-by-Step Tutorial

In this tutorial we’ll talk about how to use Google Maps API with Rails. We’ll see some examples of using Static API and Javascript API, how to place a marker and how to update the marker position when we change a form input value. And finally how to update the input value by dragging the marker. All of this without using any gems.

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Paulo Belo

Developer. Freelancer. Looking for the right words, mainly in ruby and dart.