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  

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[ 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 be cy cz dk ee es fi fo gi gr gl ie is it 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 addr.

For example: 

 get_locale_by_addr('217.110.207.55') => "de"
get_locale_by_name(host)

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

For example: 

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

[Validate]