# Retrieving whole URL in rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-whole-url-in-rails/143793>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 22, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-whole-url-in-rails/143793 "2008-07-22T20:17:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![gattone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gattone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gattone)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-whole-url-in-rails/143793/1 "2008-07-22T20:17:28Z")

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I was wondering if there is a method (or a way in any sense) to gather  
the whole URL (the current one, the url in which a hypothetical user  
is seeing in the moment), with all the detail (with all the  
http://,subdomains,  
etc) not only the relative path…

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![gattone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gattone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gattone)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-whole-url-in-rails/143793/2 "2008-07-22T23:15:14Z")

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request.url

See  
[http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/AbstractRequest.html#M000804](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/AbstractRequest.html#M000804)