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Geocoder gem: is there a way to record IP of someone who merely visits the website using geocoder?

I have a very low traffic web site and I want to record the IP address of everyone who visits it.

I know Ruby geocoder can detect IP of whoever's making a request

request.ip  # =>    "216.232.140.27"

However, I'm not sure how I can record this to a database or somehow store it so I can see it if someone just visits my website.

i.e my problem/mental blockage seems to be that I expect someone to click a button in order to trigger a method but I want the IP address stored by someone just visiting....

Can someone explain how I could write a method to store the IP address in a database (or somewhere other than a database such as the logs if that's better) if someone merely visits my site?

Solution

  • If I understand correctly what you need, then you dig in the wrong direction.

    First, ip method is contained in a standard request, it is not relevant to the Geocoder: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Request.html#method-i-ip

    Second, much easier to install third-party statistics in order then keep track of all visitors (by ip or whatever you want). For example: http://www.google.com/analytics/

    Hope this helps.