Research city state gem upgrade for use in setting location based on buckets

[dboyer]

Goals:

1. Determine if we want to use the city-state gem
2. Determine how to get rid of our forked version and instead use the version through the gem source

[viviancan]

btw here is the our fork of the gem

[viviancan]

I think the city state gem will work. As a proof of concept, I removed the forked version and added the original city-state gem. I created an maxmind account using the engineering email. Credentials & license key in password manager.

Following this blog post I created a basic rails form in place of the original location vue form to test out the idea. I think this path forward will work as expected. I did not try to "update" the city-state data yet, but the docs state the data can be updated using the following

CS.set_license_key('MY_KEY')

CS.update

Based on this information, I am moving this ticket into the review/QA and we can determine next steps!

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[shaun-technovation]

I started looking at the city-state gem too, looks like it's a good out-of-the-box option.

If we want to add additional location data (which the gem supports)... I was able to add an additional state, but I wasn't able to add an additional city, looks like other people are running into this issue to:

• Adding a missing city is not working properly thecodecrate/city-state#67
• Renaming a city or Delete city thecodecrate/city-state#43

That's one downside I'm seeing is that the gem maintainer(s) aren't very active/responsive. But, perhaps this gem will work if we don't need any customizations. 🤔

[shaun-technovation]

Also, re: customizing, looks like we can provide our own data source too (perhaps getting the Maxmind data and appending to it), if we need to.