How to generate links with trailing slash in Rails 3?

Question

I'm porting the existing website from PHP to Ruby on Rails 3 and I have to keep the urls unchanged.

I have the route:

get 'companies/' => 'companies#index', :as => :companies

In a view file I have:

link_to 'Companies', companies_path

and this generates the url "http://website.com/companies" instead of "http://website.com/companies/".

I want the slash at the end of the url. Is it possible?

May I ask? Why do you need to keep this slash? (it is not RESTful way) — bor1s, Jun 26 '11 at 08:13
It is for SEO purposes. The page with this URL is already exist and redirect in this case is not the solution. — Aleksandr Shvalev, Jun 26 '11 at 08:34

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '12 at 23:15

37

You can add this to your application.rb:

config.action_controller.default_url_options = { :trailing_slash => true }

This way all routes will be generated with a trailing slash automatically, with no need to modify each link in your project.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 23:15

David Morales

score 23 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '11 at 08:38

23

Simply do as follows:

link_to 'Companies', companies_path(:trailing_slash => true)

answered Jun 26 '11 at 08:38

apneadiving

Awesome! I didn't know about the `:trailing_slash` option. – Ryan Bigg Jun 26 '11 at 08:53
1

Thanks a lot! It works! But maybe you know is there the way to make rails automatically add trailing slash if it is present in the url pattern in routes.rb? – Aleksandr Shvalev Jun 26 '11 at 08:54
If you know, please give me the solution here: [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6486758/how-to-make-rails-do-not-ignore-trailing-slashes-in-the-routes) – Aleksandr Shvalev Jun 26 '11 at 21:10

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '13 at 13:11

3

I couldn't find any references, but adding trainling_slash: true to the route definition also works (and avoids repeating oneself).

get 'companies/' => 'companies#index', :as => :companies, :trailing_slash => true

This was tested with Rails 3.2.13:

rails c
1.9.3p327 :005 > app.companies_path
=> "http://www.example.com/companies/

answered Aug 05 '13 at 13:11

Abel Muiño

Nice solution if you want to apply this to a specific route – Mirko Akov Feb 26 '15 at 08:29

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 06 '13 at 15:49

0

For rails 3.2:

Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:trailing_slash]= true

answered Jun 06 '13 at 15:49

blub

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