Hello - I am trying to browser test a Rails application in IE6 using Parallels. This means I need to access the locally running Mongrel server that Rails starts on port 3000. Any advice on how best to do this? I am using Mac OS 10.5 and using Parallels to launch Windows XP. I realize I cannot access it using "localhost" like I would from the Mac machine; but when I try to access it using the ip address for the Mac machine, it tells me that "the page cannot be displayed". I can see pages from within the Rails app public folder, but not the app itself. As I understand it (which I may not) IE never hits the Mongrel server or can't find it or whatever. Any direction on this is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Matthew
Parallels creates two new network adapters, the virtual ips are in the ranges of those adapters, the Host is 10.37.129.2 if I'm not mistaken, but if you do ifconfig/ipconfig on the guest you'll see what's the gateway address.
If software is running in Mac OS, you can perform ifconfig -a on Mac and use en0, or en3 interface IP
