YahooCountriesAndProvinces
A Ruby gem for generating a list of all the countries and provinces using Yahoo's YQL.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'yahoo_countries_and_provinces'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install yahoo_countries_and_provinces
Usage
#require the file
require "yahoo_countries_and_provinces"
#To get a list of the countries in english
country_array = YahooCountriesAndProvinces::countries("en")
#To get a list of the countries in swedish
country_array = YahooCountriesAndProvinces::countries("sv")
#To get Germany's provinces in english
provinces_array = YahooCountriesAndProvinces::provinces("Germany", "en")
About the language parameter
Please read Yahoo's support section regarding the internationalization...