Using the geocoder gem for rails, how do i get the visitor's city?

Question

https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder

I can't find documentation to show the visitor's city from ip address? I know how to with HTML5, but I would like to use the value geocoder has. Thanks

Answer 1

It took a couple of hours for me to realize that the answer is pretty simple:

request.location.city

Geocoder page has this example but I thought that I would need to declare request but no, nothing more is needed.

If you don't have Geocoder you have to install the gem but nothing besides that.

Answer 2

How I did it was -

location = Geokit::Geocoders::IpGeocoder.geocode(source_ip)
city = location.city
country = location.country

Here, source_ip is a string object.