Freegeoip is a library for accessing freegeoip.net API simply in Ruby.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'freegeoip'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install freegeoip
Include the following code in config/initializer/freegeoip.rb
Freegeoip.setup :host => '127.0.0.1', :port => '8080', :protocol => 'http'
Or if the above settings is true to your setup just write the code below:
Freegeoip.setup
l = Freegeoip.lookup('8.8.8.8')
The variable l is a hash that contains the following [[keys:]]
- ip - the ip address that you wanted to lookup
- country_code
- country_name
- region_code
- region_name
- city
- zipcode
- latitude
- longitude
- metro_code
- areacode
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request