Cannot update free db due to "Significant Changes to Accessing and Using GeoLite2 Databases"

[FabioCareMonkey]

Since yesterday, this gem can no longer update the GeoLite2 Databases. It will need a few upgrades

this is the reference of what caused this to break
https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

[yhirose]

@FabioCareMonkey, thanks for letting me know the news. It seems like I now need to sign up the maxmind user account and get a license key to download test database files and run the unit tests...

[FabioCareMonkey]

@yhirose Not wanting to place pressure, just to have a fell for it, would you be planing on updating the gem along this January?

[yhirose]

@FabioCareMonkey, I am now thinking of using test data here in https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB, instead of downloading GeoLite2 databases from their site due to this policy change.

This is actually what the official MaxMind-DB-Reader-ruby does for testing. https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-ruby/tree/master/test

Since the db format itself doesn't change, I don't have to touch the db reader code. All I have to do is just to switch to the new test data. So I think it doesn't take much time to be done. I'll try to work on it sometime this month. Thanks for your attention.

[yhirose]

@FabioCareMonkey, I just started working on the issue.
maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Reader-ruby#32

[yhirose]

Supported the new download policy.
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7e65191

Since it doesn't require any change in maxminddb gem itself, I don't bump up version.