As a user I want to record the name of the requesting computer

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http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Request.html

• [x] Capture hostname
• [x] Persist hostname
• [ ] Display offense.hostname

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Clarify: I had said to use request.hostname, but that's not a thing. request.remote_host is just the ip.

I know that this can be done -- it logs requesting computer name when you are running a server with ruby -run -e httpd . -p 9090.

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I did some digging in webrick 2.2.0 -- not sure if we have access to this, but it looks like

• ~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/webrick/httpserver.rb
• ~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.2/lib/ruby/2.2.0/webrick/accesslog.rb may have the answer. Maybe request.params['u']?

For our purposes we may be able to use Resolv (http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.2/libdoc/resolv/rdoc/Resolv.html#method-c-getname)

require 'resolv'
Resolv.getname(request.remote_ip)

I'm not sure that this will work outside of the network.