This gem was created with geolocation in mind, meaning that the main goal is to get a latitude and longitude, but it will return additional data if available. With this gem you can pass an IP number or an ZIP number or an ordinary address and it will try to get as many information as possible about the given argument.

@usage

gem install simple_geolocation
require ‘simple_geolocation’

Using with IP.

location = SimpleGeolocation.Geocoder.new(“74.125.113.104”)
location.geocode!
geo.success? # => true
location.city # => “Mountain View”
location.state # => “CA”
location.lat # => 37.41919999999999
location.lng # => -122.0574
location.provider # => “geoip”

Using with zipcode (Brazilian zipcode only)

geo = SimpleGeolocation.Geocoder.new(“22640100”)
geo.geocode!
geo.success? # => true
geo.street # => “Av. Das Américas”
geo.district # => “Barra da Tijuca”
geo.state # => “RJ”
geo.city # => “Rio De Janeiro”
geo.zip # => “22640-100”
geo.lat # => -23.0032808
geo.lng # => -43.3230295

Using with standard address

geo = SimpleGeolocation::Geocoder.new(“Rua do Principe, 199, Joinville, SC”)
geo.geocode!
geo.success? # => true
geo.lat # => -26.30101
geo.lng # => -48.8452974
geo.completeness # => 88

The returned attributes are: lat, lng, city, state, provider, zip, street, district, number