Use hardcoded ip address in development

[trevormast]

Geocoder isn't able to detect our location in development.

[trevormast]

Not very clean, but it works:

#app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :development_ip
  ...

  def development_ip
    if Rails.env.development?
      ActionDispatch::Request.class_eval do
        def remote_ip
          Rails.application.secrets[:dev_ip]
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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#config/secrets.yml
development: 
  dev_ip: #hardcoded ip address

[trevormast]

This is a more programmatic method that hits ipify's API and returns your ip:

def development_ip
    if Rails.env.development?
      ActionDispatch::Request.class_eval do
        def remote_ip
          uri = URI.parse('http://api.ipify.org?format=json')
          http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

          request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
          response = JSON.parse(http.request(request).body)["ip"]
        end
      end
    end
  end