Merge pull request #480 from monfresh/geocode-with-sleep

Add sleep option for geocode rake task.

README.md

@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ If you have just added geocoding to an existing application with a lot of object
 
     rake geocode:all CLASS=YourModel
 
-Geocoder will print warnings if you exceed the rate limit for your geocoding service.
+Geocoder will print warnings if you exceed the rate limit for your geocoding service. Some services — Google notably — enforce a per-second limit in addition to a per-day limit. To avoid exceeding the per-second limit, you can add a `sleep` option to the rake task, like so:
+
+    rake geocode:all CLASS=YourModel sleep=0.25
 
 
 Request Geocoding by IP Address

lib/tasks/geocoder.rake

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@ namespace :geocode do
   desc "Geocode all objects without coordinates."
   task :all => :environment do
     class_name = ENV['CLASS'] || ENV['class']
+    sleep_timer = ENV['SLEEP'] || ENV['sleep']
     raise "Please specify a CLASS (model)" unless class_name
     klass = class_from_string(class_name)
 
     klass.not_geocoded.each do |obj|
       obj.geocode; obj.save
+      sleep(sleep_timer.to_f) unless sleep_timer.nil?
     end
   end
 end