ruby on rails - geocoding api not responding fast enough for IP address

Question

In my production server I've used the Geocoder gem. But, the following code not working in the server console.

Geocoder.search("192.168.1.4")

I've configured my geocoder.rb file with timeout 30 seconds. But still it gives the error geocoding api not responding fast enough

Surprisingly, whenever i ran Geocoder.search("San Francisco, CA") it gives the result within seconds.

What should i do?

Answer 1

I think it is an issue with freegeoip, try the following:

Enter this in your rails console:

Geocoder.configure(:ip_lookup => :telize)

Now try you search in your console.

if this works you can have your file (config/initializers/geocoder.rb)

Geocoder.configure(

  :timeout=>20,

  :lookup=>:yandex,

  :ip_lookup=>:telize,

  :language=>:en,

  :http_headers=>{},

  :use_https=>false,

  :http_proxy=>nil,

  :https_proxy=>nil,

  :api_key=>nil,

  :cache=>nil,

  :cache_prefix=>"geocoder:",

  :units=>:km,

  :distances=>:linear

)

I hope this help you.