---
title: "🛑🇷🇺 Block access to your software from Russia IPs"
author: "Yaroslav Shmarov"
date: "2022-02-25"
canonical_url: "https://blog.superails.com/block-russian-ips"
markdown_url: "https://blog.superails.com/block-russian-ips.md"
description: "Russian Terrorist Army has attacked my country. It is bombing my hometown (Chernihiv). It is threatening life of my family."
tags: ["rails","Ukraine","rUssia"]
license: "GNU AGPL v3. Credit Yaroslav Shmarov and link the canonical URL."
---

# 🛑🇷🇺 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 🛑

![block software from russia](assets/images/block-software.png)

Complete technological embargo.

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

```ruby
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](https://stackoverflow.com/a/13478695){:target="blank"}
* [gem geocoder](https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder){:target="blank"}

**Update**: [@rameerez has created a gem](https://twitter.com/rameerez/status/1497522706274996224) that blocks all requests from Russia.