I think, we can also use http://geokit.rubyforge.org/api/geokit-rails/ (Geokit Plugin: Geocoder, Distance Finders, and more) to get visitor ip, city and country.
On 19/03/2012, Agis A. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday, March 19, 2012 6:30:35 PM UTC+2, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 19 March 2012 15:38, Agis A. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi guys. >> > >> > I have an app where visitors can see offers in their cities. So a >> > visitor >> > must select his city first in order to access the app (much like >> > Groupon, >> > using just a cookie though). >> > >> > How should I approach this? I mean,right now what I'm doing is I have >> > the >> > action for the homepage (which lists all offers) and a before_filter >> applied >> > to it, which redirects the user if no cookie is found. Is this the right >> > >> way >> > though? >> >> I would do it using the session rather than a cookie (though the same >> thing underneath of course, but more railsey). >> >> Colin >> > I'm using the cookie rather than session since a user that will set his > city for the first time, is unlikely to "change a city". So I suppose that > the visitor will always be interested in his City's offers (well at least > until the cookie expires), that's why I wanted to persist this information. > That way, since I don't have any authentication system, the site always > remembers the device's location so the user doesn't have to choose the city > everytime he closes the browser. > > What do you think about that? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/X8QlZdM1hhAJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
