How to geolocate an IP in Ruby

Let’s make this as simple as possible, only two steps!

Step 1. Add Cloudmersive’s validate API client to your Gemfile:

gem 'cloudmersive-validate-api-client', '~> 1.3.2'

Step 2. Call the function i_p_address_post:

# load the gem
require 'cloudmersive-validate-api-client'
# setup authorization
CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.configure do |config|
  # Configure API key authorization: Apikey
  config.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR API KEY'
  # Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. 'Bearer' (defaults to nil)
  #config.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
end
api_instance = CloudmersiveValidateApiClient::IPAddressApi.new
value = "value_example" # String | IP address to geolocate, e.g. \"55.55.55.55\".  The input is a string so be sure to enclose it in double-quotes.
begin
  #Geolocate an IP address
  result = api_instance.i_p_address_post(value)
  p result
rescue CloudmersiveValidateApiClient::ApiError => e
  puts "Exception when calling IPAddressApi->i_p_address_post: #{e}"
end

Here’s an example output for 12.34.56.78:

{
  "CountryCode": "US",
  "CountryName": "United States",
  "City": "Columbus",
  "RegionCode": "OH",
  "RegionName": "Ohio",
  "ZipCode": "43204",
  "TimezoneStandardName": "America/New York",
  "Latitude": 39.953,
  "Longitude": -83.0767
}

Notice that we are provided with the city, state or province, zip code, country name and code, as well as the actual latitude and longitude coordinates.