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IPAddress is a wrapper method built around IPAddress's library classes. Its purpouse is to make you indipendent from the type of IP address you're going to use.

For example, instead of creating the three types of IP addresses using their own contructors

ip  = IPAddress::IPv4.new "172.16.10.1/24"
ip6 = IPAddress::IPv6.new "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
ip_mapped = IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

you can just use the IPAddress wrapper:

ip  = IPAddress "172.16.10.1/24"
ip6 = IPAddress "2001:db8::8:800:200c:417a/64"
ip_mapped = IPAddress "::ffff:172.16.10.1/128"

All the object created will be instances of the correct class:

ip.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv4
ip6.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv6
ip_mapped.class
  #=> IPAddress::IPv6::Mapped
# File lib/ipaddress.rb, line 185
def IPAddress(str)
  IPAddress::parse str
end

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