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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 14, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-add-html-extension-to-all-urls/142987 "2008-07-14T09:13:29Z")\
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**Author:**  [@etetet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/etetet)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-add-html-extension-to-all-urls/142987/1 "2008-07-14T09:13:29Z")
Is there an easy way to add a .html extension to the end of all URLs?
I’ve tried adding this to routes.rb:
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.html’, :format =\> ‘html’
or this to the ApplicationController:
def default\_url\_options(options)
{ :format =\> ‘html’ }
end
but neither of these methods renders the right link with the link\_to
tag \<%= link\_to ‘Show’, post] %\>
Do I have to use or is there a
more elegant solution?
Thanks!
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**Author:**  [@etetet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/etetet)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-add-html-extension-to-all-urls/142987/2 "2008-07-14T10:52:44Z")
et wrote:
> Is there an easy way to add a .html extension to the end of all URLs?
>
> I’ve tried adding this to routes.rb:
> map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.html’, :format =\> ‘html’
> but neither of these methods renders the right link with the link\_to
> tag \<%= link\_to ‘Show’, post] %\>
>
> Thanks!
Where did you put that extra route?
Routes are matched in the order they feature in your routes.rb file
so,
map.admin ‘admin/:action/:id.html’, :controller =\> ‘admin’, :format =\>
“html”
…
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.html’, :format =\> “html”
map.connect ‘:controller/:action.html’, :format =\> “html”
# now the defaults
map.connect ‘:controller/:action/:id.:format’
map.connect ':controller/:action/:id
should generate with .html for you,
but why do you want this?
by all means provide a legacy fallback to .html,
but moving forward,
why is it good to depend on this extension?
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**Author:**  [@etetet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/etetet)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-way-to-add-html-extension-to-all-urls/142987/3 "2008-07-14T17:49:04Z")
I have the extra route above the default ones, but is there a way to
generate “/posts/1.html” using \<%= link\_to ‘Show’, post %\> or a
simpler method than what I have above?
Right now /posts/1.html works if I navigate directly to it, but the
links on the views/posts/index.html.erb are still rendering as /posts/
1
The reason I want the extension is to make sure search engines will
see /posts/1.html as a document in the first level directory as
opposed to /posts/1 as a second deeper level directory.
On Jul 14, 4:52 am, Matthew R. Jacobs \