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rack_ip_restrictor

Restricts requests to specific IP addresses and ranges for specified paths.

Installation

Add the following line to your Gemfile

gem "rack_ip_restrictor"

If you want to use it as plugin

rails plugin install git://github.com/phatworx/rack_ip_restrictor.git

Using

Rails 3

Create an initializer file in config/initializers, e.g. config/initializers/rack_ip_restrictor.rb with your configuration. See the documentation for details.

Rack::IpRestrictor.configure do
  respond_with [403, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'}, '']

  ips_for :test do
    add '127.0.0.1'
    add '127.0.0.2/8'
  end

  restrict /^\/admin/, '/admin', :only => :test
end

Add the configured middleware in the config/application.rb

# [...]
  class Application < Rails::Application
    # [...]
    config.middleware.use Rack::IpRestrictor.middleware
    # [...]
  end
# [...]

Start/restart your rails server and see it working.

Features

TODO

Maintainers

Contributing to rack_ip_restrictor

  • Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet

  • Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it

  • Fork the project

  • Start a feature/bugfix branch

  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution

  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright © 2011 Alexander Dreher. See LICENSE.txt for further details.