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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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