Need country name from the request or with ip_address

Question

I have already search out on the stack overflow but didn't find any answered related to it.

With the following below line we can get the ip address of request.

request.remote_ip

it's working fine for the ip address and gives me correct ip address of the remote machine.

But for the location it doesn't gives me the correct location.

request.location

With the above line the data which i get is like below

#<Geocoder::Result::Freegeoip:0xb47eae8c @data={"ip"=>"192.168.1.183", "country_code"=>"RD", "country_name"=>"Reserved", "region_code"=>"", "region_name"=>"", "city"=>"", "zipcode"=>"", "latitude"=>0, "longitude"=>0, "metro_code"=>"", "areacode"=>""}, @cache_hit=nil>

But the ip address is currently in india and it gives me the country name "Reserved"

Any one help will defiantly appreciate

here you are using a class C IP address, LAN ip address, hence it might be giving reserved country code — Alok Anand, Mar 05 '14 at 06:05
So what should i give can you please suggest me to get correct country name. — Bharat soni, Mar 05 '14 at 06:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 06:02

1

I'm not a Ruby programmer, PHP instead. But I doubt Ruby has an innate way to know what country an IP address is located. Try the API from a site like this: http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm

answered Mar 05 '14 at 06:02

Thread7

1,081
2
14
28

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

1

use geoip gem,

visit this SO for more and detailed answers.

If you do not want to use gem then use following simple code:--

require 'net/http'

 locale = Timeout::timeout(5) { Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='; + request.remote_ip )).body } rescue "US"

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

Community

1
1

answered Mar 05 '14 at 06:07

Alok Anand

3,346
1
20
17

Ya i already try it but it gives me that no .dat file find in your PC. – Bharat soni Mar 05 '14 at 06:09
Use this locale = Timeout::timeout(5) { Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' + request.remote_ip )).body } rescue "US" it reurn "IN" when I used my IP address – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:13
You can know your IP address, it might start with 122.xxx.xxx.xxx, use that – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:15
I used my IP and got "IN" in response 1.9.2-p320 :005 > locale = Timeout::timeout(5) { Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=' + '124.xxx.xxx.xxx' )).body } rescue "US" => "IN" – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:16
Connection refused - connect(2) – Bharat soni Mar 05 '14 at 06:19
do you know what is your IP address?? – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:22
Yes, i know very well my ip address – Bharat soni Mar 05 '14 at 06:22
are you using following code?? require 'net/http' locale = Timeout::timeout(5) { Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('api.hostip.info/country.php?ip='; + '124.xxx.xxx.xxx' )).body } rescue "US" – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:23
yes 'XX' for lan IP, go to google and just search "what is my Ip address", it willl give your IP address, use that Ip address in that above code, it will return you "IN" in response. – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:26
then request.remote_ip is not giving the actual ip address of request. – Bharat soni Mar 05 '14 at 06:27
for development environment it will return LAN class C Ip starting with 192, this is not country specific, you know :) – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:28
if you deploy your app, then it will return real country code. – Alok Anand Mar 05 '14 at 06:30

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 07:54

1

Okay, here is the sample code that you may refer to.

Retreive the geolocation of an IP address using Ruby

answered Mar 05 '14 at 07:54

HexaHow

121
1
3

Need country name from the request or with ip_address

3 Answers3