From: Joel Watson <joel@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T02:26:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting IP addresses

require 'open-uri'

page = URI.parse("http://www.whatismyip.com")

html = page.read

ip = html.scan(/.*?([0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9]{1,3}[.][0-9] 
{1,3}).*/).flatten.first



Tada!

-Joel