# Ruby URL format **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 23, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-url-format/146660 "2008-08-23T20:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomzoo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-url-format/146660/1 "2008-08-23T20:55:17Z")
I’m working on a straight forward rails app. One thing that has me puzzled is the generated hyperlinks in rails, \<%= link\_to ‘Home’, :controller =\> ‘my\_controller’, :action =\> ‘index’ %\> generates a hyperlink like: [Home](https://www.ruby-forum.com/my_app/public/my_app) when I’d expect: [Home](https://www.ruby-forum.com/my_app) I’m a novice, is there something in the .htaccess I need to change or in the routes.rb file, so I get a hyperlink in the format of the latter. Thanks T ---
**Author:** ![tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomzoo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-url-format/146660/2 "2008-08-24T16:16:10Z")
Is that happening when deploying? On Aug 23, 9:55 pm, Tom E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e4f/32.png) [@tomzoo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomzoo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-url-format/146660/3 "2008-08-24T19:56:44Z")
Andrius C. wrote: > Is that happening when deploying? > > On Aug 23, 9:55�pm, Tom E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Yes, on my local machine this does not happen, but when deployed to my host the problem appears.