How to get my machine's IP address from Ruby without leveraging from other IP address?

Question

I have searched everywhere but their solution requires some form of IP address. Here are the solutions i have found.

    require \'socket\'
#METHOD 1
    ip          


        

Answer 1

parse the output of the ip command?

from https://gist.github.com/henriquemenezes/a99f13da957515023e78aea30d6c0a48

gw = `ip route show`[/default.*/][/\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+/]

or parse the output of the ipconfig command: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12632929/32453