IPAddr provides a set of methods to manipulate an IP address. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
Example
require 'ipaddr' ipaddr1 = IPAddr.new "3ffe:505:2::1" p ipaddr1 #=> #<IPAddr: IPv6:3ffe:0505:0002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff> p ipaddr1.to_s #=> "3ffe:505:2::1" ipaddr2 = ipaddr1.mask(48) #=> #<IPAddr: IPv6:3ffe:0505:0002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000/ffff:ffff:ffff:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000> p ipaddr2.to_s #=> "3ffe:505:2::" ipaddr3 = IPAddr.new "192.168.2.0/24" p ipaddr3 #=> #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0>
Constants
RE_IPV6ADDRLIKE_COMPRESSED = %r{ \A ( (?: (?: [\da-f]{1,4} : )* [\da-f]{1,4} )? ) :: ( (?: ( (?: [\da-f]{1,4} : )* ) (?: [\da-f]{1,4} | (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) ) )? ) \z }xi
RE_IPV6ADDRLIKE_FULL = %r{ \A (?: (?: [\da-f]{1,4} : ){7} [\da-f]{1,4} | ( (?: [\da-f]{1,4} : ){6} ) (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) ) \z }xi
RE_IPV4ADDRLIKE = %r{ \A (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) \. (\d+) \z }x
IN6FORMAT = (["%.4x"] * 8).join(':')
IN6MASK = 0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
IN4MASK = 0xffffffff
Attributes
[R] | family |
Returns the address family of this IP address. |