Question

This is my first time developing a rails app from scratch. The goal of my code is to use a title and link (both stored in a database table) to redirect users to the link. (Problem) When I click the link title, I’m redirected to localhost:3000/google.com instead of google.com. (Assuming google.com was the value in link.link)

<h1>Links#index</h1>

<% @links.each do |link| %>
<p>
<%= link_to link.title, link.link %>
</p>
<% end %>

Notes:

(1) Using Rails 3.1

(2) The contents of my routes.rb file are below (Not sure if the use of resources :links has something to do with my problem)

CodeHed::Application.routes.draw do
  resources :links
  get "links/index"
  root :to => "links#index"
end

Answer 1

Are your links prefixed with “http://”? If not, try adding that in programmatically with something like:

def add_http(link)
  if (link =~ /http(?:s)?:\/\//)
    link
  else
    "http://#{link}"
  end
end

If that doesn’t work then you could simply enter raw html:

<h1>Links#index</h1>

<% @links.each do |link| %>
<p>
  <%= link_to title, add_http(link) %>
</p>
<% end %>

(I haven’t checked this code)