# Geoip moved to rubyforge

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geoip-moved-to-rubyforge/118134>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 24, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geoip-moved-to-rubyforge/118134 "2007-10-24T05:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clifford\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Clifford\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Clifford_H)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geoip-moved-to-rubyforge/118134/1 "2007-10-24T05:00:36Z")

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The GeoIP gem, now two years old, has been moved to RubyForge.  
There are no functional changes, just some minor tweaks to the  
documentation.

GeoIP searches a GeoIP database for a given host or IP address,  
and returns information about the country (and city, if you have  
such a database) where the IP address is allocated.

The free country database is available from Maxmind at  
[http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz](http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz).  
The city database is available from Maxmind by subscription.

Clifford H…