autometal-geoip

• github.com/Achillefs/geoip

DESCRIPTION:

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/.“

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• While you are installing the MaxMind binaries on Linux systems, you mayget 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 the directory the libraries were installed in usually /var/lib or /var/shared/lib)
  $ ldconfig
  

  And rerun the installer

SYNOPSIS:

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

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 Geolocatable
end
Site.new(:domain => "google.com")
site.country
=> "US"

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 Geolocatable
  def geo_attr; self.weird_ip_field_name; end
end
Site.new(:weird_ip_field_name => "66.102.13.106")
site.country
=> "US"

REQUIREMENTS:

• GeoIP C bindings (installed along with the Gem)

• Active Support (sudo gem install active-support –no-ri –no-rdoc) This isn’t really needed, I just like using the 1.day.ago stuff too much…

INSTALL:

sudo gem install autometal-geoip

LICENSE:

Copyright © 2010 Achillefs Charmpilas, Humbucker Ltd

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.