https://github.com/technicalpickles/has_ip_address

An extension to ActiveRecord to store IP Addresses in the database as integers
https://github.com/technicalpickles/has_ip_address

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An extension to ActiveRecord to store IP Addresses in the database as integers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/technicalpickles/has_ip_address
• Owner: technicalpickles
• License: mit
• Created: 2009-09-28T05:04:38.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2009-09-28T21:24:28.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-12T00:20:30.097Z (10 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 94.7 KB
• Stars: 19
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rdoc
  • License: LICENSE

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= has_ip_address

An extension to ActiveRecord to store IP Addresses in the database as integers, in part to IPAddr.

    class Visit < ActiveRecord::Base

      has_ip_address

    end

Here's an example of using it:

    >> visit = Visit.new

    => #

    >> visit.ip_address = "127.0.0.1"

    => "127.0.0.1"

    >> visit.ip_address

    => #

    >> visit.ip_address.to_i

    => 2130706433

    >> visit.ip_address.to_s

    => "127.0.0.1"

This assumes you are using a column named :ip_address. To change this behavior, pass in a parameter with the column you care to use:

    class Visit < ActiveRecord::Base

      has_ip_address :visit_ip

    end

== Known issues

 * Setting ip_address to an invalid IP address will fail with an ArgumentError from IPAddr.

   * Ideally, it should let you pass any value in without error, but invalid IP addresses will add a validation error during validation

   * In the mean time, you probably want to only this when the IP Address will definitely be correct, ie from a controller's `request.remote_ip`.

== Note on Patches/Pull Requests

 

* Fork the project.

* Make your feature addition or bug fix.

* Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a

  future version unintentionally.

* Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.

  (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but

   bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

* Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

== Copyright

Copyright (c) 2009 Joshua Nichols. See LICENSE for details.