How to get the IP address of my local machine in Ruby?

Question

I am doing Rails development in Ubuntu 12.04LTS OS.

I want to capture my local IP address in a file, not the loopback 127.0.0.1, the one which I get using ifconfig. Please suggest a solution.

Answer 1

Use Socket::ip_address_list.

Socket.ip_address_list #=> Array of AddrInfo

Answer 2

This is my first way:

require 'socket' 
    def local_ip
  orig, Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup, true  # turn off reverse DNS resolution temporarily

  UDPSocket.open do |s|
    s.connect '64.233.187.99', 1
    s.addr.last
  end
ensure
  Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = orig
end

# irb:0> local_ip
# => "192.168.0.127"

This is my second way, which is not recommended:

require 'socket'
 Socket::getaddrinfo(Socket.gethostname,”echo”,Socket::AF_INET)[0][3]

The third way:

 UDPSocket.open {|s| s.connect('64.233.187.99', 1); s.addr.last }

And a fourth way:

Use Socket#ip_address_list

Socket.ip_address_list #=> Array of AddrInfo