Get my domain in Rails controller

Question

I would like to get my domain name: http://localhost:3000 in dev, or mydomain.com in production.

I don't want to use request.host, because my request may come from a different website. How should I do this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

You'd use request.domain. Take a look at the ActionController Overview - Request & Response Objects section for more info.

For clarification, request.domain will return the hostname of the server used for the request, not the hostname of the visitor. Unless you are hosting your application using multiple domains you should get the value you are expecting (e.g. mydomain.com)

Answer 2

I know this is an old question but it ranks highly in search. In case anyone stumbles across this looking to retrieve the domain with the protocol, you can use:

request.base_url
#=> http://localhost:3000 # dev
#=> https://example.com # prod

Hope that's handy for someone.