How do I get the current absolute URL in Ruby on Rails?

Question

How can I get the current absolute URL in my Ruby on Rails view?

The request.request_uri only returns the relative URL

Answer 1

Rails 4.0

you can use request.original_url, output will be as given below example

get "/articles?page=2"

request.original_url # => "http://www.example.com/articles?page=2"