Thanks Kevin! Looking forward to the assistance. :-) I haven't thought about scrubbers and parsers. Sounds like a good fit, but I'm not in a position to really know the best approach, nor do I have an application requiring them that I could use for real-world test data.
My first priority with Snail is to make it easy for people to improve the areas that are most important to them. Right now I have a fixed origination country (USA) and no validation rules. I think the next step is to sketch out the validation system and make the origination country configurable, even if it still only supports USA. From there I hope that people will find it easy to add rules for the countries they know best. -Lance On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Kevin Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lance, > > I commend you on taking this on. This has been a huge pet peeve of > mine over the years, and only very expensive commercial solutions were > available to even do a fraction of the things necessary to manage > mailing addresses. > > Have you thought about also creating parsers to help identify what the > address is, and which formatter to use? (like, identify which state/ > province and country, then determine the rules around parsing and > formatting) > > Also, I find that I often work with addresses that were inputted in > odd ways, and requires me to "scrub" them a lot. There are very > expensive commercial solutions for this, but no good open source > solutions, and especially no Ruby ones. Thought about putting in some > basic scrubbing rules as well (and possibly address verification > services)? > > I'll keep an eye on Snail, and help where I can. > > -Kevin > > > On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Lance wrote: > > > > > Howdy -- > > > > I couldn't find any existing libraries to help format international > > mailing addresses. Turns out it's rather tedious. Not only do > > different countries have different names for the components of an > > address, but many countries have different formats for the city line. > > And then there's Great Britain, er England, er ... yeah. > > > > So I've started work on a plugin called Snail. My dream is that it > > will grow to encapsulate the rules of international address formatting > > and basic validation. It's just quite a lot for any one person. > > > > The first release is up on GitHub at http://github.com/cainlevy/snail. > > If your application has anything to do with addresses, and you think > > it may need to go international, I hope you'll check it out! > > > > -Lance > > > > > > > > -- rails blog: http://codelevy.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
