Make Development Server Available To Outside Requests

Problem: You are developing an api and want to make it available to receive requests from your colleagues without pushing your changes to your Staging server.

Solution: Assuming you are all on the same network, you can make machine available to receive requests by following the steps below.

Make your local server available to them by running

$ rails s --binding 0.0.0.0

Tell them your IP, get it by running

$ ifconfig

in terminal. Your IP is under heading en0, the line starting with inet.

Alternatively, put this beast in your bash_profile

alias ipaddr="ifconfig | grep -oE "[0-9]{1