How do I redirect without www using Rails 3 / Rack?

Question

I understand there are a lot of questions that answer this. I\'m familiar with .htaccess and nginx.conf methods, but I do not have access to such t

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with the approaches above, but there are also a couple of gems that provide Rack middleware to do this.

I like the way that they keep this behaviour separate from the app itself, but it's not a particularly strong argument either way. I also use middleware to do this when working with Sinatra, so prefer to use a technique that I can use on apps built from Rails and/or Sinatra (I often run Nesta embedded in Rails).

Anyway, here they are:

• https://github.com/cwninja/rack-force_domain
• https://github.com/tylerhunt/rack-canonical-host

The first is simpler (and the one I've been using) while the second offers a couple more features (that I'm yet to need, but appreciate).