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How to connect an iOS device to your computer via a SOCKS proxy

Say you're running a virtual machine on your work computer. Say this machine, for whatever reason, can only connect to the internet over NAT - as in, it does not get it's own IP address. Say this VM is running a webserver, and you need a device outside of your computer to connect to it.

If only there was a way to get your work computer to 'share' it's network, so that you could get at that VM… Here's how you do it!

For all instructions, I assume your work computer is a mac

Get your computer's IP address:

Example of Kamal deployment from Github Actions.

Add your applications .env variables to the Github repo as a repository secret, you can find this under the repo settings => secrets and variables => actions

https://github.com/username/repo_name/settings/secrets/actions

you are going to need an ssh private key that your deployment server is aware of (add public key to servers .ssh/authorized_keys) and add the ssh private key as a repo secret

create action workflows

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'english'
	require 'rubocop'

	ADDED_OR_MODIFIED = /A\|AM\|^M/.freeze

	changed_files = `git status --porcelain`.split(/\n/).
	select { \|file_name_with_status\|
	file_name_with_status =~ ADDED_OR_MODIFIED

	# This script has to be run as a root user
	echo "* Updating system"
	apt-get update
	apt-get -y upgrade
	echo "* Installing packages"
	apt-get -y install build-essential libmagickcore-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev git-core nginx redis-server curl nodejs htop

	id -u deploy &> /dev/null

	if [ $? -ne 0 ]

	# File: app/controllers/api/api_controller.rb
	class Api::ApiController < ActionController::Base
	# Consider subclassing ActionController::API instead of Base, see
	# http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/API.html

	protect_from_forgery with: :null_session
	before_action :authenticate

	def self.disable_turbolinks_cookies
	skip_before_action :set_request_method_cookie

	# Instead of loading all of Rails, load the
	# particular Rails dependencies we need
	require 'sqlite3'
	require 'active_record'

	# Set up a database that resides in RAM
	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
	adapter: 'sqlite3',
	database: ':memory:'
	)