Get server url

Rails
1

Hi all,

How do i get the server url? Much like the PHP function
$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]

Regards,
Stijn

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On 10/3/07, Tarscher [email protected] wrote:

Hi all,

How do i get the server url? Much like the PHP function
$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]

You can get it your controller through

request.request_uri

or in your view through

controller.request.request_uri

All the CGI-style variables are available through request.env as well,
so this works:

request.env[‘REQUEST_URI’]

But I wonder why you want it? You normally work with the Rails routing
system and don’t deal with the details of the request URI. What are
you trying to accomplish?

3

Many thanks for the fast reply.

The request.env[‘REQUEST_URI’] only returns the path eg:
http://localhost:3000/user I get /user . Iactually want
http://localhost:3000/
I can do this via request.protocol()+request.request_uri() but I
wonder if there is a single method that can do this.

I need this for mail sending. I’m creating a user activation system
that wan run on multiple domains. When I send out a mail the user has
to click alink to activate it. Ofcourse this link is dependant on the
domain the site is hosted on.

Regards,
Stijn

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On 10/3/07, Tarscher [email protected] wrote:

I need this for mail sending. I’m creating a user activation system
that wan run on multiple domains. When I send out a mail the user has
to click alink to activate it. Ofcourse this link is dependant on the
domain the site is hosted on.

Use url_for with :only_path set to false to generate full url’s

activate_link = url_for({:only_path => false}, :controller =>
‘account’, :action => ‘activate’, :id => @user)

Or, if you have a named route for activation, these generate full
url’s by default:

activate_link = activate_url(:id => @user)