ruby-on-railsruby-on-rails-4.1

Bind rails server to 127.0.0.1 by default

I'd like to bind the rails server to 127.0.0.1, instead of 0.0.0.0 so its not accessible when I'm working from coffee shops.

Is there a configuration file where I can specify this option so I don't have to pass the command line switch:

rails server -b 127.0.0.1

?

Solution

  • If you are searching for Rails 5: Answer

    In Rails ~> 4.0 you can customize the boot section of the Server class:

    In /config/boot.rb add this lines:

    require 'rails/commands/server'

module Rails
  class Server
    def default_options
      super.merge({Port: 10524, Host: '127.0.0.1'})
    end
  end
end

    As already answered on this questions:

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