Localhost running on mac.. Can I view it on my Android phone?

Question

Running a ruby on rails project on my mac. I need to test it on my android phone. Is there a way to view my mac localhost on my android phone?

Answer 1

This worked for me for accessing rails server with IP over local network:

• The firewall has to be turned off.

• /etc/hosts should have this entry:

  127.0.0.1 192.168.100.12
  

  where 192.168.100.12 is the ip address which can be found by ifconfig command in terminal.

• Start rails server with this command:

  rails server -b 0.0.0.0 -p 8080
  

I was able to access my localhost through http://192.168.100.12:8080/