Question

When using match in rails routing, as:

match "/about/" => about#index

both mysite.com/about/ and mysite.com/about show the same page.
This may create some duplicate content issues.
What I what to accomplish is that mysite.com/about will be directed to the other URL varient, i.e. mysite.com/about/.

I tried to accomplish simple by writing:

match "/about" => "/about"

but this cause a major error in my routing file and the application failed.
Obviously I’m doing something wrong.

Please advise.

Answer 1

use the following line in application.rb to generate a tailing slash for all the url

config.action_controller.default_url_options = { :trailing_slash => true }