# Gem for displaying international postal addresses?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-for-displaying-international-postal-addresses/191949>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-for-displaying-international-postal-addresses/191949 "2010-07-21T09:05:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nosretep)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-for-displaying-international-postal-addresses/191949/1 "2010-07-21T09:05:21Z")

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Is there a Gem that can be utilized for displaying postal addresses in  
the format specific to their destination country or region?

Basically, a Gem that programatically does what this site advises?

> **[International Address Formats (Postal/Mailing Addresses) and Other...](http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html)**
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> Includes proper international address formats, international postage rate tables and calculators, address directories for many countries, and more. Many useful links.

Anything similar?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nosretep)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-for-displaying-international-postal-addresses/191949/2 "2010-07-21T09:39:54Z")

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[GitHub - cainlevy/snail: A Ruby gem to assist with collecting and formatting international addresses](http://github.com/cainlevy/snail) may be a start

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**Author:** ![nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@nosretep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nosretep)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gem-for-displaying-international-postal-addresses/191949/3 "2010-07-22T05:57:39Z")

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Looks like a great start. Thank you!