+
+ def self.IPToCountry(ip_address)
+ Timeout::timeout(4) do
+ ipinfo = Quova::IpInfo.new(ip_address)
+
+ if ipinfo.status == Quova::Success then
+ country = ipinfo.country_code
+ else
+ Net::HTTP.start('api.hostip.info') do |http|
+ country = http.get("/country.php?ip=#{ip_address}").body
+ country = "GB" if country == "UK"
+ end
+ end
+
+ return country.upcase
+ end
+
+ return nil
+ rescue Exception
+ return nil
+ end
+
+ def self.IPLocation(ip_address)
+ code = OSM.IPToCountry(ip_address)
+
+ if code and country = Country.find_by_code(code)
+ return { :minlon => country.min_lon, :minlat => country.min_lat, :maxlon => country.max_lon, :maxlat => country.max_lat }
+ end
+
+ return nil
+ end
+
+ # Construct a random token of a given length
+ def self.make_token(length = 30)
+ chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrtuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'
+ token = ''
+
+ length.times do
+ token += chars[(rand * chars.length).to_i].chr
+ end
+
+ return token
+ end
+
+ # Return an encrypted version of a password
+ def self.encrypt_password(password, salt)
+ return Digest::MD5.hexdigest(password) if salt.nil?
+ return Digest::MD5.hexdigest(salt + password)
+ end
+
+ # Return an SQL fragment to select a given area of the globe
+ def self.sql_for_area(minlat, minlon, maxlat, maxlon, prefix = nil)
+ tilesql = QuadTile.sql_for_area(minlat, minlon, maxlat, maxlon, prefix)
+
+ minlat = (minlat * 10000000).round
+ minlon = (minlon * 10000000).round
+ maxlat = (maxlat * 10000000).round
+ maxlon = (maxlon * 10000000).round
+
+ return "#{tilesql} AND #{prefix}latitude BETWEEN #{minlat} AND #{maxlat} AND #{prefix}longitude BETWEEN #{minlon} AND #{maxlon}"
+ end
+
+ # Return a spam score for a chunk of text
+ def self.spam_score(text)
+ link_count = 0
+ link_size = 0
+
+ doc = Nokogiri::HTML(text)
+
+ if doc.content.length > 0
+ doc.xpath("//a").each do |link|
+ link_count += 1
+ link_size += link.content.length
+ end
+
+ link_proportion = link_size.to_f / doc.content.length.to_f
+ else
+ link_proportion = 0
+ end
+
+ return [link_proportion - 0.2, 0.0].max * 200 + link_count * 20
+ end
+
+ def self.legal_text_for_country(country_code)
+ file_name = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "config", "legales", country_code.to_s + ".yml")
+ file_name = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "config", "legales", DEFAULT_LEGALE + ".yml") unless File.exist? file_name
+ YAML::load_file(file_name)
+ end