Heroku SSL on root domain

Question

I am trying to setup SSL for my heroku app. I am using the hostname based SSL add-on. The heroku documentation states the following:

Hostname based SSL will          


        

Answer 1

DNS redirects wouldn't care whether the inbound request is http or https so would maintain the original protocol - so would redirect http://foo.com to http://www.foo.com and the same for https.

You'll need to do it within the application via the gem you found or some other rack redirect gem or if www. is a problem use the IP based SSL addon.