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?

Answer 1

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.