Module Amazon::Locale
In: lib/amazon/locale.rb

Use of this module requires the use of the GeoIP library from MaxMind. It also requires the net-geoip Ruby module to interface with it.

Load this library as follows: 

 require 'amazon/locale'

Methods

get_locale_by_addr   get_locale_by_name  

Classes and Modules

Class Amazon::Locale::GeoError

Constants

CA = %w[ ca ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the CA locale.
DE = %w[ at ch de ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the DE locale.
FR = %w[ be fr ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the FR locale.
JP = %w[ jp ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the JP locale.
UK = %w[ ad al ba cy cz dk ee es fi fo gg gi gr gl hu ie im is it je li lt lu lv mk mt nl no pl pt ro se si sk sm uk ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the UK locale.
US = %w[ mx us ]   ISO 3166 codes of countries likely to want to shop in the US locale. Any countries not explicitly listed above default to the US locale.

Public Class methods

get_locale_by_addr(address)

This will attempt to return a reasonable locale (ca, de, fr, jp, uk or us) to use for the IP address address.

Example: 

 get_locale_by_addr( '217.110.207.55' ) => "de"

[Source]

# File lib/amazon/locale.rb, line 92
      def Locale.get_locale_by_addr(address)
        cc = Net::GeoIP.new.country_code_by_addr( address )
        raise GeoError, "invalid address: #{address}" unless cc
        localise( cc )
      end
get_locale_by_name(host)

This will attempt to return a reasonable locale (ca, de, fr, jp, uk or us) to use for host.

Example: 

 get_locale_by_name( 'xs1.xs4all.nl' ) => "uk"

[Source]

# File lib/amazon/locale.rb, line 79
      def Locale.get_locale_by_name(host)
        cc = Net::GeoIP.new.country_code_by_name( host )
        raise GeoError, "invalid host: #{host}" unless cc
        localise( cc )
      end

[Validate]