Get real IP address in local Rails development environment

Question

I have Rails 2.3.8, Ruby 1.8.7, Mongrel Web Server and MySQL database.

I am in the development mode and I need to find the real IP address

Answer 1

This is what I normally do nowadays:

if Rails.env.production?
  request.remote_ip
else
  Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://checkip.amazonaws.com/')).squish
end