From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2008-03-30T17:08:55+09:00
Subject: Re: remote ip address

The remote ip is a CGI parameters. All webservers should set this, you can 
read it with (assuming you use CGI):

 require 'cgi'
 $stderr.puts "Remote Addr: #{CGI.new.remote_addr}"

Martin


On Sunday 30 March 2008 00:51:25 Ben Aroia wrote:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > El Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2008, Ben Aroia escribió:
> >> I am going to be using a simple ip limiting system on a site I'm working
> >> on and using php you can get the remote ip simply by calling something
> >> like
> >> <?php echo $REMOTE_ADDR; ?>
> >> Is there a similar method in ruby? I am not using rails, not supported
> >> on the server I'm using. Thanks
> >
> > That depends on the Ruby web server you are using. The source IP is
> > obtained
> > from the connection Ruby socket (if Ruby handles the conecction) but if
> > you
> > are using a web server that is the responsible of handling the TCP
> > connection
> > and providing the origin address:port in form of variable and so.
>
> Apache/1.3.34 Ben-SSL/1.55 is the server info. It goes index.php has a
> form that is submitted using GET to /ruby.rb. ruby.rb generates the
> content for the page depending on the form input. I'm not sure if I'm
> all that clear. It's not a ruby web server. It's just a script on a web
> server.