From: Phil Hagelberg <phil@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T02:38:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting IP addresses

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 02:26 +0900, Joel Watson wrote:
> 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

Sweet--it's a bit more portable than just pulling it out of
system("ifconfig").

But why do you need it?

-Phil