This gem needs the tor executable in $PATH. (brew install tor etc.)
require 'tor_proxy'
uri = URI('https://api.ipify.org/?format=text')
proxy = TorProxy.instance(logger: Logger.new(STDOUT))
proxy.with_proxy(uri) { |proxy| proxy.request(Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)).read_body.chomp }
# => some IP (of the current Tor exit node)
proxy.request_new_ip
proxy.with_proxy(uri) { |proxy| proxy.request(Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)).read_body.chomp }
# => some other IP (of the current Tor exit node)
proxy.stop!When the singleton instance is initialized, Tor will be started with a random SOCKS port, a random control port and a temp dir is used as its data dir (removed automatically when you call stop!).
The Kernel#at_exit hook is used to call stop! (unless it was previously invoked manually).
SSL connections are not verified (OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.