How to add a trailing_slash to all urls without in Rails 4?
ruby-on-rails, ruby-on-rails-4, trailing-slash, url, url-routing
Solution
I think you have the meaning of `:trailing_slash => true` wrong.
All it does is add the / to the end of you path helpers. No redirecting involved.
Your routes will still respond to both with and without the trailing slash.
If you want to redirect all non-`trailing_slash` uri's like `/download` to `/download/` using a nginx http server you would do something like this:
rewrite ^([^.\?]*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;
You would still want to add the `:trailing_slash => true` to your routes so your path/url helpers generate the the correct uri's (so user don’t need to redirect).
Problem
I've tried adding this in application.rb ``` config.action_controller.default_url_options = { :trailing_slash => true } ``` as well as having `:trailing_slash => true` in routes.rb ``` match '/download', to: 'welcome#download', via: 'get', :trailing_slash => true ``` But neither seems to work. I searched through rails 4.0 doc but couldn't find related info. What am I missing here? Update: I've tried adding ``` Rails.application.default_url_options[:trailing_slash] = true ``` in `filter_parameter_logging.rb` since this is the only place in the whole project where I could find `Rails.application.*`, but it's not working either. I found the line here among the releases and I am using 4.0.4. Am I adding this in the wrong place? And I did restarted server before rechecking. And sorry for the simple question but from what I've gathered isn't `trailing_slash` supposed to be reflected in browser url as well, if not primarily? Because this is what I need, to go with historyjs.