Ipify

An unofficial ipify Ruby gem. Get your external IP address.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ipify'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ipify

Usage

Pretty simple, you can either ignore exceptions or deal with them:

require 'ipify'

# deal w/errors!
begin
  ip = Ipify.ip!
  # => '1.2.3.4'
rescue Ipify::ConnectionError
  # failed to connect to the service
rescue Ipify::ServiceError
  # ipify.org is having issues!
rescue
  # something else...
end

# ignore errors!
ip = Ipify.ip
# => '1.2.3.4'

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/code-lever/ipify-gem/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request