Hi -
Your gem was a great resource - I used it to parse addresses for an app I created. I tried to deploy the app to Heroku and keep getting this error:
NameError (uninitialized constant HomesController::Indirizzo):
Do you know how to correct this? Have you run into a similar issue?

Thanks,
Carly

It would be nice if some segments are not downcased. For example city name or street names are all in lowercase. Reverting this is not always possible.

First off, naming this with a capital "I" defies most convention and I am frowning upon it.

Second, this gem doesn't work.

Installing the gem works OK, but it's unusable.

require 'Indirizzo' does not work.

lower case also does not work:

require 'indirizzo'
LoadError: cannot load such file -- indirizzo

And as some have suggested, including the useful Address class directly also doesn't work:
require 'indirizzo/address' LoadError: cannot load such file -- indirizzo/constants

Someone with a working knowledge of proper Gem creation should be able to fix this. Really sad to see potentially useful but likely malformed and abandoned gems out there. Kudos if someone helps. I can't waste my time on broken stuff for that long, as I have to move on and solve my actual problem.

Thanks for getting this code almost there.

While using the GEM I noticed that Military base addresses return nil on lookup when providing the short postal abbreviation AA,AE,AP. These represent a number of "US" addresses states and are valid for a number of customers. I've added this issue here and already put together a pullrequest to add the states.

This is completely trivial, but I was wanting to contribute to this project and was going to start by doing some general cleanup of code. One thing is that usually in ruby you do:

require 'foo'
Foo.class

etc.

instead of:

require 'Foo'
Foo.class

etc.

Is it possible to change from Indirizzo to indirizzo sometime? Maybe we could do it by the 1.0.0 release or something?

It looks like the files packaged in the 0.1.7 gem are not world readable, which is causing problems on my app server as the gems are installed globally and the server process is running as a different user than installed the gems.

-rw-------  1 jcn  staff   140 Oct 28 17:23 Gemfile
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff   970 Oct 28 17:23 Indirizzo.gemspec
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff  7637 Oct 28 17:23 LICENSE.txt
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff  3413 Oct 28 17:23 README.md
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff   638 Oct 28 17:23 Rakefile
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff     5 Oct 28 17:23 VERSION

lib:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  5 jcn  staff  170 Oct 28 17:23 indirizzo/
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff   28 Oct 28 17:23 indirizzo.rb

test:
total 48
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff  9958 Oct 28 17:23 test_address.rb
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff  1560 Oct 28 17:23 test_constants.rb
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff    39 Oct 28 17:23 test_helper.rb
-rw-------  1 jcn  staff  1384 Oct 28 17:23 test_numbers.rb

I think that a simple chmod should do the trick here. Thanks!