Change value of request.remote_ip in Ruby on Rails

geokit, ruby, ruby-on-rails

Solution

If you want this functionality in your whole application, it might be better/easier to override the remote_ip method in your `app/helpers/application_helper.rb`:

class ActionDispatch::Request #rails 2: ActionController::Request
  def remote_ip
    '1.2.3.4'
  end
end

And the 1.2.3.4 address is available everywhere

Problem

For test purposes I want to change the return value of request.remote_ip. While being on my development machine it returns always 127.0.0.1 as it should but I would like to give myself different fake IPs to test the correct behavior of my app without deploying it to an live server first! Thank you.

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