To begin, sorry for the newbie question. I'm adding the geocoder gem to my app, and would like to query based on User ip_address. I've added latitude and longitude columns to the User database, but do I need to add ip_address to the User database as well? If so, is this a number or string or something else? If not, how will the app know where and how to find the user's IP address?
The users IP address is sent as part of the request header with all http requests.
you can get if from request.remote_ip in rails