🛑🇷🇺 Block access to your software from Russia IPs

Russian Terrorist Army has attacked my country. It is bombing my hometown (Chernihiv). It is threatening life of my family. My grandmother is in a village occupied by Russians. She has no access to food an help.

As a software developer, this might be one of the easiest things you can do:

🛑 Block access to your software to anybody from Russia IPs 🛑

Complete technological embargo.

If you’re running a Ruby on Rails app, it takes just one gem and one before_action to do:

bundle add geocoder

request.ip # => 233.543.123.235
request.location.country # => RU

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
before_action do
  if request.location.country.eql?("RU")
    redirect_to "https://www.ukr.net/"
  end
end

Resources:

• inspired by this answer on Stackoverflow
• gem geocoder

Update: @rameerez has created a gem that blocks all requests from Russia.