Ruby - Platform independent way to determine IPs of all network interfaces?

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Published on 2010-03-16T04:10:13Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 8:36 UTC
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Is there an easy way in Ruby for me to get a list of the IP addresses for all network interfaces? It needs to work in Linux/Win/OSX and I'd prefer to not have to parse ifconfig/ipconfig unless I absolutely have to.

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