Request.env not accessible in controller

Rails
1

Hi,

I have the simplest rails app:

my only controller says:

class MaxmindController < ApplicationController
@ip = request
end

my index.rhtml in the views/maxmind folder says:

<%= debug @ip %>

the result of trying to view this in firefox is:

NameError in MaxmindController#index

undefined local variable or method `request’ for
MaxmindController:Class

if I remove the one line from my controller and change my view code
to:

<%= debug request %>

then i get my request object nicely displayed.

Why is request available only in the view and not in the controller?
I’m running this locally under locomotive.

Thanks,

Gabor

2

Because you’re out of scope. @ip = request is in the class scope, and
request is not available there.

Try using a before_filter.

class MaxmindController < ApplicationController
before_filter :get_ip

protected
def get_ip
@ip = request.remote_ip
end

end