Freegeoip

This gem provides a simple Rails engine with an IP geolocation API that ducks with Freegeoip.

It reads MaxMindDB's open source GeoLite2 City database, with the help of maxminddb gem, a pure Ruby implementation.

You can find MaxMind's GeoLite2 City database here.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "freegeoip-rails", require: "freegeoip"

Mount the engine in your routes file:

mount Freegeoip::Engine, at: "/json"

Add an initializer like config/initializers/freegeoip.rb and tell the engine where it can find your GeoLite2 City database:

  Freegeoip.configure do |config|
    # Anything that can be opened by OpenURI
    config.db_location = Rails.root.join "vendor/maxminddb/GeoLite2-City.mmdb"
  end

Start your web server and point your browser to http://localhost:3000/json/www.ruby-lang.org or http://localhost:3000/json/151.101.1.178 and you should get a response with JSON data.

Contributions are always welcome.

Crafted with love at Varvet digital agency. Skapad med omsorg av Varvet digital byrå.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.