Sijo Kg wrote: > Hi > Could you please tell the code to get the IPaddress of my machine This might work: class Socket class << self def get_ip hostName begin ipInt = gethostbyname(hostName)[3] return "%d.%d.%d.%d" % [ipInt[0].ord, ipInt[1].ord, ipInt[2].ord, ipInt[3].ord] rescue SocketError # bizarre, but happens return '' end end def get_host_ip begin ip = Socket.getaddrinfo(Socket.gethostname, nil, Socket::AF_UNSPEC, Socket::SOCK_STREAM, nil, Socket::AI_CANONNAME).select{|type| type[0] == 'AF_INET'}[0][3] # ltodo hmm we don't want it to do the reverse lookups! raise if ip.blank? return ip rescue => e get_ip(Socket.gethostname) # less accurate or something, I guess end end end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.