Ngrok let us to publish our local application for the world. It is very useful for example if we want to create a webhook integration.
These are simple steps to connect NGROK with your rails application:
- First we need to install ngrok on our computer. If you have mac os and homebrew, you can just use the command bellow
brew install --cask ngrok- Then you need to register an account on ngrok website. It is free with some limitations, but for the simple use free account is just enough.
- Next step is to connect your account with the ngrok library on your computer. To do it you need to paste command bellow
# you can find your token on your ngrok account
ngrok authtoken YOUR_ACCOUNT_TOKEN- If your account is connected, you can run your rails server on the standard 3000 port
- If it works, you can run HTTP tunnel on port of your rails server:
ngrok http 3000- The last thing is to add ngrok domain permission to your hosts in development.rb file. It can look like this:
config.hosts << "54g34h654h54hh.ngrok.io"- You can restart your rails server and enjoy ngrok features now!