GeoIP::DB
Combining the geoip gem and the database from MaxMind, this gem offers IP Geolocation in an easy to deploy package.
Usage
require 'geoip-db'
geoip = GeoIP::DB.instance
geoip.city('github.com')
#=> ["github.com", "207.97.227.239", "US", "USA", "United States", "NA", "CA", "San Francisco", "94110", 37.7484, -122.4156, 807, 415, "America/Los_Angeles"]
GeoIP::DB.instance
returns an instance of GeoIP
initialized with a copy of the city database. See
geoip for further usage.
Packaging
rake update_database
- Update gemspec
gem build geoip-db.gemspec
Versioning
The version represents the year and month that the database was updated. Maxmind updates the database on the first Tuesday of each month.
This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.