From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T00:42:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting IP addresses

Mark Van Holstyn wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get an ip address from within ruby? I would like to
> be able to grab both the ip of computer( the one assigned by my local
> network ) and the ip to the outside world. Any help would be great.


irb -r socket
irb> Socket.getaddrinfo( Socket.gethostname, Socket::AF_INET )
=> [["AF_INET", 2, "lima", "10.0.1.44", 2, 2, 17]]

Zach