Newbie issue. ReferenceError: geoip is not defined

[kojilab]

Hi,

I'm a nodejs newbie and I'm playing with railwayjs with GeoIP.

I've done

sudo npm install geoip

Then in my controller, I've got

require('geoip'); // this doesn't return any error as a module that is not found

then

var City = geoip.City; var citydata = new City('../../data/geo/GeoLiteCity.dat');

And I'm getting the error in the title.

Thanks for helping a newbie like me.

[kuno]

In node, require is a function not a statement (like ruby?)

You SHOULD assign the return value of require('geoip') to a javascript variable, like this:

var geoip = require('geoip');

This should solve your problem.

[kojilab]

Thanks. IT works now. I know JS very well but I guess my brain is so backend oriented I missed that one

[kuno]

Yeah, that's one of the primary reasons why people loves node, : )

[kojilab]

Yes. Tired of switching languages.

It works great by the way.

Thanks for the great library.

[kuno]

You are welcome to this community.

[sanvuthy]

Can I use it with rails?

[kuno]

@sanvuthy

this is only for nodejs.