How to connect to a localhost Rails site via mobile device locally?

mobile-phones, ruby-on-rails, wifi

Solution

If your computer is accessible from internet, just enter in your mobile browser:

http://your.ip:3000/

You could also create a local network (via wifi for instance), connect to it with your cell phone and then do the same thing.

If you are using Rails 4.2+, start the server using:

 rails server -b 0.0.0.0

(see http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/4_2_release_notes.html#default-host-for-rails-server).

Problem

I have a Rails site that I'm developing on localhost Ubuntu and I have a mobile. My site is running on http://localhost:3000. I want to access this directly via my mobile browser not going through the internet. Is there any way to access it via WiFi or some other way?

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