Getting a user country name from originating IP address with Ruby on Rails

Question

I want to extract a user country name from visitors\' IP addresses.

I could get the IP address with remote_ip. But what could be the easiest way to get

Answer 1

One service you could use to do this is my own, https://ipinfo.io. It gives you country code and a bunch of other details:

$ curl ipinfo.io
{
  "ip": "24.6.61.239",
  "hostname": "c-24-6-61-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "region": "California",
  "country": "US",
  "loc": "37.3845,-122.0881",
  "org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC",
  "postal": "94040"
}

If you just want the country you can get that by requesting /country

$ curl ipinfo.io/country
US

You can then map from a country code to a name using the data from http://country.io, or using the example at http://ipinfo.io/developers/full-country-names