From 5eef05c50f0ce875f4ecd687fa012165a671875f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joshlarsen <josh@stacknine.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:04:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md
Updated MaxMind Local setup instructions
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* **Limitations**: ?
* **Notes**: There are two supported formats for MaxMind local data: binary file, and CSV file imported into an SQL database. **You must download a database from MaxMind and set either the `:file` or `:package` configuration option for local lookups to work.**
+**To create a Rails initializer** with an example configuration:
+
+ rails generate geocoder:config
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**To use a binary file** you must add the *geoip* (or *jgeoip* for JRuby) gem to your Gemfile or have it installed in your system, and specify the path of the MaxMind database in your configuration. For example:
Geocoder.configure(ip_lookup: :maxmind_local, maxmind_local: {file: File.join('folder', 'GeoLiteCity.dat')})
@@ -613,12 +617,12 @@ This lookup provides methods for geocoding IP addresses without making a call to
You can generate ActiveRecord migrations and download and import data via provided rake tasks:
- rails generate geocoder:maxmind:geolite_city
+ rails generate geocoder:maxmind:geolite PACKAGE=city
- rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite_city:download
- rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite_city:extract
- rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite_city:insert
- rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite_city:load # runs the above three in sequence
+ rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite:download PACKAGE=city
+ rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite:extract PACKAGE=city
+ rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite:insert PACKAGE=city
+ rake geocoder:maxmind:geolite:load PACKAGE=city # runs the above three in sequence
You can replace `city` with `country` in any of the above tasks, generators, and configurations.
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