This simple Rack server is useful as a self-hosted service for making lookups to the GeoIP database from MaxMind.com
- Clone this:
git clone git://github.com/JackDanger/geoip_server.git - Download the free GeoIP data files:
rake geoip:update_city_lite - Commit that data file to your clone:
git add vendor && git commit -m "adding data file" - Signup for an account at Heroku (better details here)
- Create and name a new app where you want to host this
- push it to Heroku.com:
git push heroku master
Once the server is running you can make a GET request to the server and receive lookup results in JSON format.
ip = request.remote_ip
require 'open-uri'
data = JSON.decode(open("http://my-geoip-service-app.heroku.com/#{ip}").read)
render :text => "You're in: #{data[:city]}"
Or, straight from a terminal:
curl -X POST http://my-geoip-service-app.heroku.com/207.97.227.239
Patches welcome, forks celebrated.
Copyright (c) 2010 Jack Danger Canty. Released under the MIT License.