autometal-geoip¶ ↑

• github.com/Achillefs/geoip

A wrapper to MaxMind’s GeoIP services, that can work with both free and paid versions. Also provides geo-location methods to Active Record and Sequel Models.

This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from www.maxmind.com/.

It is quite fast, simple and hackable, and it doesn’t require any change to your application schema - unless you want to. Plus, the ruby bindings available from MaxMind are quite crap to use.

• While you are installing the MaxMind binaries on Linux systems, you may get an error similar to this:

  libGeoIP.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  If you do, do the following:

  $ vim /etc/ld.so.conf (and add /var/shared/lib)
  $ ldconfig

  And rerun the installer.

Autometal::Geoip provides a standalone GeoIP service:

require "rubygems"
require "geoip"
@geo = Autometal::Geoip.new("66.102.13.106")
@geo.country
=> US

You can also pass it a domain instead of an IP address

@geo = Autometal::Geoip.new("www.google.com")
@geo.country
=> US

If you have purchased the Organization edition of the GeoIP database, you can also do this:

@geo.organization
=> Google

Currently, the gem does not support installing the file itself, you will need to make sure that GeoIPOrg.dat is located in /usr/local/shared/

You can make any object Geo-location aware, as long as it has an IP or a domain attribute:

require "rubygems"
require "geoip"
class Site
  include Autometal::Geolocatable
end
Site.new(:domain => "google.com")
site.country
=> "US"
site.organization # if GeoIPOrg.dat is not installed, this will return nil

The above will work if your class has a domain attribute. You can override the attribute used to geolocate by overriding geo_attr

require "rubygems"
require "geoip"
class Site
  include Autometal::Geolocatable
  def geo_attr; self.weird_ip_field_name; end
end
Site.new(:weird_ip_field_name => "66.102.13.106")
site.country
=> "US"

• GeoIP C bindings (installed along with the Gem)

sudo gem install autometal-geoip
sudo install_geoip (unless already installed)

• 0.4 Ruby 1.9.* support. Previous version of this gem would product encoding errors in some instances due to the different way Ruby 1.9+ deals with source and text encodings.

• 0.3.7 Installation now checks for sudo command, and runs accordingly. Bear in mind that if you are not root and sudo does not exist, the installation will fail as it will not have enough permissions to install binaries.

• 0.3.5 Documentation fixes

• 0.3.4 Changed bin_installed detection

• 0.3.3 Removed active_support dependency

• 0.2.2 Reworked class hierarchy, added support for GeoIP’s Organization database

• 0.1.3 Installer bugfix, fixes datafile install crash

• 0.1.1 Initial release

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