rgeo VS geoip

Compare rgeo vs geoip and see what are their differences.

rgeo

Geospatial data library for Ruby (by rgeo)

geoip

The Ruby gem for querying Maxmind.com's GeoIP database, which returns the geographic location of a server given its IP address (by cjheath)
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6.8 0.0
about 2 months ago almost 5 years ago
Ruby Ruby
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only
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rgeo

Posts with mentions or reviews of rgeo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
  • How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2023
    In the RGeo lib, our first design choice was to have an API that only uses variadic length arguments. No keywords, no blocks. This can be very limiting, and we are now using the Primitive way to allow more convoluted arguments.
  • A logo for RGeo
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 7 Jan 2022
    I've been maintaining https://github.com/rgeo/rgeo for more than a year now, and the one thing that I really feel bad about is its logo (https://rgeo.info). Isn't there someone devoted here that could make a (less than 30mn of work) logo.
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 7 Jan 2022
    - rgeo.info

geoip

Posts with mentions or reviews of geoip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning geoip yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rgeo and geoip you can also consider the following projects:

GeoNames - GeoNames API's wrapper (gem)

Google Maps for Rails - Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps

Geocoder - Complete Ruby geocoding solution.

Geokit - Official Geokit Gem. Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations. Pair with the geokit-rails plugin for full-fledged location-based app functionality.

Geo::Coord - Simple yet useful Geo Coordinates class for Ruby

OpenCage Geocoder - Ruby client for the OpenCage geocoding API