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

Try the IP2Location Ruby

https://github.com/ip2location/ip2location-ruby

Pre-requisite

Download the free LITE database from http://lite.ip2location.com/ and use below.

Install

gem install ip2location_ruby

Usage

require 'ip2location_ruby'

i2l = Ip2location.new.open("./data/IP-COUNTRY-SAMPLE.BIN")
record = i2l.get_all('8.8.8.8')

print 'Country Code: ' + record.country_short + "\n"
print 'Country Name: ' + record.country_long + "\n"
print 'Region Name: ' + record.region + "\n"
print 'City Name: ' + record.city + "\n"
print 'Latitude: '
print record.latitude
print "\n"
print 'Longitude: '
print record.longitude
print "\n"
print 'ISP: ' + record.isp + "\n"
print 'Domain: ' + record.domain + "\n"
print 'Net Speed: ' + record.netspeed + "\n"
print 'Area Code: ' + record.areacode + "\n"
print 'IDD Code: ' + record.iddcode + "\n"
print 'Time Zone: ' + record.timezone + "\n"
print 'ZIP Code: ' + record.zipcode + "\n"
print 'Weather Station Code: ' + record.weatherstationname + "\n"
print 'Weather Station Name: ' + record.weatherstationcode + "\n"
print 'MCC: ' + record.mcc + "\n"
print 'MNC: ' + record.mnc + "\n"
print 'Mobile Name: ' + record.mobilebrand + "\n"
print 'Elevation: '
print record.elevation
print "\n"
print 'Usage Type: ' + record.usagetype + "\n"