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Classes: IPAddress

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#IPAddress(str) ⇒ Object

IPAddress is a wrapper method built around IPAddress’s library classes. Its purpose is to make you independent from the type of IP address you’re going to use.

For example, instead of creating the three types of IP addresses using their own contructors

ip  = IPAddress::IPv4.new "172.16.10.1/24"
ip6 = IPAddress::IPv6.new "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
ip_mapped = IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

you can just use the IPAddress wrapper:

ip  = IPAddress "172.16.10.1/24"
ip6 = IPAddress "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
ip_mapped = IPAddress "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

All the objects created will be instances of the correct class:

ip.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv4
ip6.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv6
ip_mapped.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped



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# File 'lib/ipaddress.rb', line 981

def IPAddress(str)
  IPAddress.parse(str)
end