GeographyHelper

GeographyHelper stores country, state and province data has Ruby hashes.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'geography_helper'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install geography_helper

Usage

GeographyHelper::States.new.states # hash of states
GeographyHelper::States.new.provinces # hash of provinces
GeographyHelper::Countries.new.countries # hash of countries

GeographyHelper::States.new.states['United States']['NY'] # => "New York"

The gem also provides two helper methods to render state/province and country dropdowns from a Rails select dropdown.

<%= form.select :country, country_options_for_select('US') %>
<%= form.select :state, state_options_for_select('NY') %>

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake rspec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/iacutone/geography_helper.

License

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