It’s nice having a chat channel as dead as #sinatra. It makes it trivial to go back through a day and read every message that went through. One of those messages yesterday was from SirSydAlot asking if Sinatra could bind to a certain IP address. I told him at the time that Rack should support it, but Sinatra didn’t yet, so I went to check that fact.

in Rack::Handler::Mongrel

        server = ::Mongrel::HttpServer.new(options[:Host] || '0.0.0.0',
                                           options[:Port] || 8080)

and in Rack::Handler::Thin

        server = ::Thin::Server.new(options[:Host] || '0.0.0.0',
                                    options[:Port] || 8080,
                                    app)

So I made a patch to add a host option

. It’s pretty simple to use:

# That's it...
set :host, '192.168.1.1'

It sounds like the patch will be included in the mainline code soon, so look for that. Until then, be sure to use my host_setting branch, as that’s the only place this patch is.

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