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Rails redirect with https

I'm maintaining a Ruby on Rails site and I'm confused as to how to perform redirects to relative URLs using the https protocol.

I can successfully create a redirect to a relative URL using http, for example:

redirect_to "/some_directory/"

But I cannot discern how to create a redirect to a URL using the https protocol. I have only been able to do so by using absolute URLS, for example:

redirect_to "https://mysite.com/some_directory/"

I would like to keep my code clean, and using relative URLs seems like a good idea. Does anyone know how to achieve this in Rails?

Solution

  • You're probably better off using ssl_requirement and not caring if a link or redirect is or isn't using https. With ssl_requirement, you declare which actions require SSL, which ones are capable of SSL and which ones are required not to use SSL.

    If you're redirecting somewhere outside of your Rails app, then specifying the protocol as Olly suggests will work.