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Installation

When you sign up you will be provided with a unique username and password and a connection string that you can use when configuring your proxy service in your application  

http://username:password@brooks.quotaguard.com:9293

  

All requests that you make via this proxy will appear to the destination server to originate from one of the two static IPs you will be assigned when you sign up.
 

We recommend you store the connection string in an environment variable QUOTAGUARD_URL. If you have signed up via the add-ons platform on Heroku or cloudControl this variable will be automatically set in your production environment.


Integration

Ruby has many HTTP client libraries, but our favorite for HTTP interactions is rest-client. 

You can run the below example in an irb session and verify that the final IP returned is one of your two static IPs.

 

require "rest-client"
RestClient.proxy = ENV["STATICA_URL"] if ENV["STATICA_URL"]
res = RestClient.get("http://ip.jsontest.com")
puts "Your IP was: #{res.body}"

 

Other Libraries

We have examples for most of the other common Ruby HTTP libraries, but if you can't find what you are looking for, just send us a Support ticket and we'll get one across to you.


 
If you have questions, or if this solution doesn’t work or fit your use case, please reach out to us at Support so we can help figure it out with you.


Working with sensitive data, like HIPAA, Financial, or Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? 
    Then you will want to check out our QuotaGuard Shield solution, it's the same as QuotaGuard Static, but with stronger end to end security for your requests. We can also help migrate current Static customers to Shield for free, just reach out to us at Support to request assistance.