Base URL of Rails app in Model

If you want to get the root URL in your model, what I did is call an ENV variable.

If you haven't already, go ahead and create .env in the root directory of your applicatoin and set in development to:

ROOT_URL=http://localhost

In your production environment set:

ROOT_URL=https://mydomain.com

Of course this is hard coded so the pitfall is that you need to remember to change this when changing domains and each environment's file must be different.

And be sure this is also in your gitignore since other sensitive data will be stored here.

In your model you call by: ENV['ROOT_URL']

You may use environment variables:

in environment

ROOT_URL=http://myapp.com

in-app

ENV['ROOT_URL']