Redirect to canonical route in without trailing slash in Rails 3

Question

On Rails 3, I'm trying to redirect from a URL without a trailing slash to the canonical URL that has a slash.

match "/test", :to => redirect("/test/")

However, the route above matches both /test and /test/ causing a redirect loop.

How do I make it match only the version without the slash?

Answer 1

You can force the redirect at the controller level.

# File: app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  protected

  def force_trailing_slash
    redirect_to request.original_url + '/' unless request.original_url.match(/\/$/)
  end
end

# File: app/controllers/test_controller.rb
class TestController < ApplicationController

  before_filter :force_trailing_slash, only: 'test'  # The magic

  # GET /test/
  def test
    # ...
  end
end

Answer 2

I wanted to do the same to have a cannonical url for a blog, this works

  match 'post/:year/:title', :to => redirect {|env, params| "/post/#{params[:year]}/#{params[:title]}/" }, :constraints => lambda {|r| !r.original_fullpath.end_with?('/')}
  match 'post/:year/:title(/*file_path)' => 'posts#show', :as => :post, :format => false

then I have another rule which deals with the relative paths inside the post. Order is important, so former goes first and generic one goes second.