How do you add a custom http header?

Question

I'm looking to add custom http headers to a Ruby on Rails app that is currently hosted on Heroku.

Answer 1

Use:

response.headers['HEADER NAME'] = 'HEADER VALUE' 

either in a specific method or to a before_filter method of your application controller depending on whether you need this to be added in a specific or to all of your responses.

UPDATE for Rails 5 - February 24th, 2018

As noted by @BrentMatzelle in the comments, for Rails 5:

response.set_header('HEADER NAME', 'HEADER VALUE')