How to make Rails do not ignore trailing slashes in the routes?

Question

For example, I have the rote in routes.rb:

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

There is the way to generate link with the trailing slash (like "http://website.com/companies/"):

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

But I want Rails to generate link with trailing slash if it is present in the route by default:

link_to 'Companies', companies_path

Now it generates something like "http://website.com/companies". How to fix it?

The original question was here: [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6486758/how-to-make-rails-do-not-ignore-trailing-slashes-in-the-routes). I have to keep URLs unchanged when I port existing website to Rails. — Aleksandr Shvalev, Jun 26 '11 at 21:13
Sorry, I meant this question: [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6482693/how-to-generate-links-with-trailing-slash-in-rails-3) — Aleksandr Shvalev, Jul 01 '11 at 19:05
similar to this, answer in here http://stackoverflow.com/a/12364020/445023 — carlosayam, Sep 11 '12 at 07:08

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '11 at 01:02

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I'm not sure why you need your routes to understand that there is a trailing slash. It doesn't matter if you put the trailing slash to Rails. It should respond either way.

If you want all of your links to have a trailing slash, you can put the following in your application.rb:

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

This will make all links generated by Rails have a trailing slash. Now, if you're trying to reject any route that does not contain a trailing slash, then I'm not sure about how to do that.

answered Nov 22 '11 at 01:02

Sean Hill

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The main reason a routing table should recognize a route with a trailing slash or not is that it might matter for SEO. If both slash and non-trailing-slash versions contain the same content and each returns 200 consider changing this behavior to reduce duplicate content and improve crawl efficiency. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html – dmmfll Apr 28 '18 at 16:45

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '11 at 22:36

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How about implementing a helper called link_to_with_trailing_slash(name, path)?

def link_to_with_trailing_slash(name, path)
  link_to(name, "#{path}/"
end

answered Jun 26 '11 at 22:36

Peder

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Thanks, but I want Rails to understand what I want if there is the trailing slash defined in the route in routes.rb. – Aleksandr Shvalev Jun 27 '11 at 06:46

How to make Rails do not ignore trailing slashes in the routes?

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