---
title: "Request object in Rails 2.3.18"
slug: request-object-in-rails-2-3-18
date_published: "2014-03-20T00:00:00.000Z"
date_updated: "2014-03-20T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: []
draft: false
summary: "During the execution of an action in Rails we can access to all the parameter of the request via de request object. This object includes..."
---

During the execution of an action in Rails we can access to all the parameter of the request via de request object. This object includes the following useful methods:

- **headers** -- Returns a hash containing the headers associated with the request.
- **body** -- Returns an StingIO with the body.
- **host** -- The hostname used for this request.
- **domain** -- The hostname without the first part (usually "www").
- **format** -- The content type requested by the client.
- **method** -- The HTTP method used for the request.
- **get?, post?, put?, delete?, head?** -- Returns true if the HTTP method is get/post/put/delete/head.
- **port** -- The port number (integer) used for the request.
- **protocol** -- The protocol used for the request.
- **query_string** -- The query string part of the URL -- everything after "?".
- **remote_ip** -- The IP address of the client.
- **url** -- The entire URL used for the request.

I found pretty useful the headers method to get headers like this:

```
request.headers['CONTENT_TYPE']
```

Also you can the raw body like follows:

```
request.body.read
```