Rails Get Client IP address

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In Rails  what s the best way to get the ip address of the client connecting to the server   Here are two ways I ve found   request remote ip request env  HTTP X REAL IP

User · Accepted Answer

I would just use the request remote ip that s simple and it works  Any reason you need another method   See  Get real IP address in local Rails development environment for some other things you can do with client server ip s

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For anyone interested and using a newer rails and the Devise gem  Devise s  trackable  option includes a column for current last sign in ip in the users table

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request remote ip is an interpretation of all the available IP address information and it will make a best-guess  If you access the variables directly you assume responsibility for testing them in the correct precedence order  Proxies introduce a number of headers that create environment variables with different names

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Get client ip using command   request remote ip

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I found request env  HTTP X FORWARDED FOR   very useful too in cases when request remote ip returns 127 0 0 1

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