ruby-on-rails-3geokit

Using Rails 3 with Geokit-rails3 location gem

I am trying to use the geokit-rails3 gem for geolocation information in a rails application. I have a simple model:

class Location < ActiveRecord::Base
  def lookup_ip_information(post_ip)
    ip = post_ip
    location = IpGeocoder.geocode(ip)
    puts location.full_address
    lat = location.lat
    lng = location.lng
  end
end

When I call this method with request.remote_ip from my controller, it's throwing an error: uninitialized constant Location::IpGeocoder

Solution

  • I just had this issue and resolved it by entering the full

    Geokit::Geocoders::IpGeocoder.geocode(request.remote_ip)

    and that seemed to solve it for me.