Lance, I commend you on taking this on. This has been a huge pet peeve of mine over the years, and only very expensive commercial solutions were available to even do a fraction of the things necessary to manage mailing addresses.
Have you thought about also creating parsers to help identify what the address is, and which formatter to use? (like, identify which state/ province and country, then determine the rules around parsing and formatting) Also, I find that I often work with addresses that were inputted in odd ways, and requires me to "scrub" them a lot. There are very expensive commercial solutions for this, but no good open source solutions, and especially no Ruby ones. Thought about putting in some basic scrubbing rules as well (and possibly address verification services)? I'll keep an eye on Snail, and help where I can. -Kevin On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Lance wrote: > > Howdy -- > > I couldn't find any existing libraries to help format international > mailing addresses. Turns out it's rather tedious. Not only do > different countries have different names for the components of an > address, but many countries have different formats for the city line. > And then there's Great Britain, er England, er ... yeah. > > So I've started work on a plugin called Snail. My dream is that it > will grow to encapsulate the rules of international address formatting > and basic validation. It's just quite a lot for any one person. > > The first release is up on GitHub at http://github.com/cainlevy/snail. > If your application has anything to do with addresses, and you think > it may need to go international, I hope you'll check it out! > > -Lance > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
