Account for geocoding failures in the listing generator.

pwnall · Jul 21, 2010 · 2eaf832 · 2eaf832
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diff --git a/lib/listing_populator.rb b/lib/listing_populator.rb
@@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ def process_post_page!(url, anchor_text)
     listing.location = clean_location location
     listing.posted_at = posted_at
     listing.title = clean_title page_title
+
+    # NOTE: the geocoder only fails if someone enters a bad query like "asdfgh"
+    #       as the exact location in Craigslist; this is usually spammy brokers,
+    #       so we'll ignore their listings.
+    return unless listing.lat && listing.lng 
     listing.save!
   end