Heroku SSL on root domain

Question

I am trying to setup SSL for my heroku app. I am using the hostname based SSL add-on. The heroku documentation states the following:

Hostname based SSL will          


        

Answer 1

On the Rails part, to make the redirection, it'd be more sane to make it occur on the router layer, like this (works on Rails 3+):

Rails.application.routes.draw do

  match '/*splat' => redirect { |_, request| request.url.sub('//www.', '//') }, :constraints => { :subdomain => 'www' }

  # ...

end