Change protocol to https in all rails helpers

Question

Rails 3.1+ I want my url helpers to use the https protocol without having to specify it in every helper I call. After searching around I\'ve found various ways but none work

Answer 1

You can add this code to ApplicationController

  def default_url_options(options={})
    options.merge(protocol: :https)
  end

You can also check out to Getting Rails URL helpers to automatically output https urls

Answer 2

For a rails 5.2.0 RESTAPI App the following worked:

In each environment file as necessary ie config/environments/test.rb

  Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:protocol] = 'https'

Controller code:

 Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.url_for(uploaded_file)

Answer 3

If you want to force SSL on your application, this can be done by setting config.force_ssl to true in your application.rb (or your environment specific file). More on the subject here

EDIT Ok so I don't find enough evidence for this, but I think you can override default_url_options=(options={}) in application controller, and set :protocol => :https in the function body. If this does not the trick for your emails, you'll have to repeat the procedure in your environment config by adding config.action_mailer.default_url_options. Hope this does it!

Answer 4

Whichever environment you want to use ssl (https://), just add this config lines to its configuration file in config/environments:

YOURAPPNAME::Application.configure do

  # Force all access to the app over SSL, use Strict-Transport-Security, and use secure cookies.
  config.force_ssl = true
end

Answer 5

In Rails 3.2.1, by default force_ssl is true, let's check

1. Open config/environments/production.rb and search "config.force_ssl"

config.force_ssl = true - no need to change

now in config/environments/development.rb - no need to place config.force_ssl, it should work, because your server running locally.

Ok, here is the other view

if !request.ssl?
  "https://" + request.host + request.request_uri
elsif request.ssl?
  "http://" + request.host + request.request_uri
end

Add def in helper base on above if else and in the ActionView::Helpers, there is a url_for method that might get you what you want if you start using that.

Answer 6

So you want it mainly for links in emails?

I think this will work in your production.rb, development.rb or any other environment.

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = {
  :host => 'yourwebsite.com',
  :protocol => 'https'
}

# Makes it possible to use image_tag in mails
config.action_mailer.asset_host = "https://yourwebsite.com"