Traveller is a gem that lets you easily parse strings for location attributes. A simple example:

traveller = Traveller.new("kent ohio 44240")

traveller.state
>> "Ohio"

traveller.state_abbreviation
>> "OH"

traveller.city
>> "Kent"

traveller.zip
>> "44240"

Parsing more complex locations:

traveller = Traveller.new("South Canton, OH 44701-1234")

traveller.state
>> "Ohio"

traveller.zip
>> "44701"

traveller = Traveller.new("new york new york")

traveller.state_abbreviation
>> "NY"

Traveller supports many different types of inputs, and you can check out the tests to see what works.

Note: latitude and longitude support is coming.

0.0.010 release ("Stet")
Updated references to GitHub after changing my username.

0.0.007 release ("Bond, James Bond")
This update fixes an issue where albany ny would be parsed as city: alban, where Traveller stripped the ny off the end. Updated the regex to only strip words with spaces before and after the target word.