How do I pass the remote (users) IP from nginx to Rails hosted on google container engine?

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I'm running passenger on nginx and have a rails app server. I'm unable to get the user's remote IP.. how can I get the User's IP?

I use a nginx.conf.erb which I can modify if needed..

The problem (I think) arises in google container engine which creates a load balancer in front of my app.. making request.remote_ip only get a local kubernetes cluster-ip rather than the remote ip..

Possible duplicate of [Rails: Get Client IP address](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4465476/rails-get-client-ip-address) — Jonathan, Jul 19 '16 at 16:39
@Jonathan nope -- this is specific to kubernetes and/or google container engine — sambehera, Jul 23 '16 at 17:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '16 at 16:38

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That should be pretty simple, infact you don't have to pass it from Nginx it always comes to rails as headers. You can access it as follows,

request.remote_ip

answered Jul 19 '16 at 16:38

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this gives me the load_balancer's ip on google container engine, not the user's ip – sambehera Jul 20 '16 at 19:44

How do I pass the remote (users) IP from nginx to Rails hosted on google container engine?

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