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https://github.com/foca/alasocho-geoip

IP geolocation service for alasocho.com
https://github.com/foca/alasocho-geoip

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IP geolocation service for alasocho.com

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# GeoIP Server

This simple Rack server is useful as a self-hosted service for making lookups to the GeoIP database from MaxMind.com

## Instant installation and deploy

* 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](http://github.com/sinatra/heroku-sinatra-app))
* Create and name a new app where you want to host this
* push it to Heroku.com: `git push heroku master`

## HowTo

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](http://jåck.com). Released under the MIT License.