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#hat tip @bear454

require 'rubygems'
require 'uri'
require 'resolv'

def ip_to_color(ip,alpha = false)
	segments = ip.split('.').collect{|s| s.to_i.to_s(16).rjust(2,'0') }
	segments.pop unless alpha
	segments.join('')
end

def host_to_color(host)
	u = URI.parse(host)
	ip_to_color(Resolv.getaddress(u.host))
end

p ip_to_color('127.0.0.1')
p host_to_color('http://google.com/')