Posts tagged with: "mongodb"

There are several cases in which it might make sense to tailor your app's content based on a user's physical location. But asking them directly is a bit of a pain. Luckily, it's extremely simple to find a user's location knowing only something you will always know about a visitor: their IP address. Today I'll walk you through how to use IPs to geolocate your visitors in a Rails application using Geokit and MongoDB's geospatial indexing with MongoMapper.

10gen, the purveyors of everyone's favorite document-oriented database MongoDB, recently held a gathering of developers, sysadmins, devops, and other parties interested in MongoDB in D.C. appropriately named MongoDC. I was fortunate enough to be asked to speak on how we use MongoDB here at Intridea, so I delivered a little treatise on one of our client projects. Although we've moved most of the project operations off of MongoDB now for a few reasons, working with such a deep and wide dataset was an interesting experience that a lot of people don't encounter when using document-oriented databases.