Request.remote_ip

Rails
1

Hi,
How can i access to request.remote_ip in a model?

2

request.env[“REMOTE_ADDR”]

3

duh, i misread the OP, didn’t see the “in a model” part.

i would recommend you pass it as a parameter to a method.

4

One way would be to set a Thread local variable in a before_filter.
See:

Cheers,
Rob

5

so that’s able to call it from parent object, something like it (i’m
not sure about the parent class) : CGI::Request.remote_ip

6

i want ip address for user model on a “before_create” method, and
store ip address on each connection.

7

i didn’t really understand your reply.

to be clear, what you want to do is pass the remote ip in as a
parameter to one of the models methods. I’m not sure what it is you
are trying to accomplish, so without further info, there’s not much
more assistance i can provide.

8

what i might do in this case is instantiate a new user object and
initialize it with the ip you want to store. keep this instance in
the session

(below is just an idea, not tested)

ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

before_filter :init_user

private
def init_user
session[:user] ||= User.new(:ip => request.env[“REMOTE_IP”])
end
end

then when you are ready, just save the user object from the session

session[:user].save

and it will already have the ip address. no need for anything fancy

again, not sure if that would work, but that is route i would take for
something like this.

hope that helps.

Chris