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.