IpToCountry

IpToCountry is a simple rails extension to find the origin (ISO country code or country name) of an IP address.

IpToCountry only supports ruby 1.9.3+, rails 3.2+ and only works with a postgresql database. Support mysql is planned.

Installation

Add the following line to your gemfile:

gem 'ip_to_country'

and run command

bundle install

Generate migration

rails generate geoip
rake db:migrate
rake ip_to_country:populate

All logic takes place in IpToCountry::Geoip model

You can find detail of an IP address, using:

IpToCountry::Geoip.by_ip('192.168.1.34')

The gem add an extension to Rack::Request to quickly get the country code/name origin of a request.

In your controller, you can do:

request.geoip.country_name
request.geoip.country_code

Pull requests and bug reports are welcome!

This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from (http://www.maxmind.com).