Get own IP address

Question

How to get my own IP address with Rails?

When I do it like this I got: 127.0.0.1

@ip = request.remote_ip

Is there any way to get the Public IP?

Answer 1

Try:

require 'socket'
ip=Socket.ip_address_list.detect{|intf| intf.ipv4_private?}
ip.ip_address if ip