hostip
A simple Ruby Gem wrapper for hostip.info
Includes a command line tool hostip to get all information from the command line as well
example
require 'hostip'
hip = Hostip.new
# get current ip
hip.ip
# get current country
hip.country_name
# get country abbriviated
hip.country_abbrev
# get current geo location
hip.geo_location
# all this also works for a given ip like 74.125.77.104 (google.com)
hip.geo_location "74.125.77.104"
hip.country_name "74.125.77.104"
command line
$ hostip --help
hostip version 0.2.0
Usage: hostip [options]
-v, --version display version
-h, --help display help
-V, --verbose be more verbose
--city get the city only i.e. Munich
--geo get longtitude and latitude, i.e. 12.45, 12.23
--country get the country i.e. Germany
--country-abbrev get the country abbreviation i.e. US
license
(the BSD license)
Copyright 2013 Philipp Fehre. All rights reserved.
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