Rails: Get Client IP address

In Rails, what's the best way to get the ip address of the client connecting to the server? Here are two ways I've found: request.remote_ip request.env['HTTP_X_REAL_IP']

[kent-where-the-light-is]

にゃるほど “ 230 down vote accepted I would just use the request.remote_ip that's simple and it works. Any reason you need another method? See: Get real IP address in local Rails development environment for some other things you can do with client server ip's.”

[yyamano]

“request.remote_ip”