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Kevin Whitaker
Kevin Whitaker

Reputation: 13425

Rails: Forcing form tag to use an HTTPS action

Trying to use the form_tag helper in rails to submit to an SSL address. Currently, my code looks like this:

form_tag(form_action_path) do
# This spits out:
<form action="form_action_path" method="post">

If I try this:

form_tag(form_action_path, :protocol => 'https', :only_path => false)
# It spits out:
<form action="form_action_path" method="post" protocol="https" only_path="false>

That is of course, not a valid or worthwhile result. How can I make the form tag helper render out an https action path?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3053

Answers (2)

Kevin Whitaker
Kevin Whitaker

Reputation: 13425

It turns out that I was using the wrong syntax.

Instead of 

form_tag(form_action_path, :protocol => 'https')

I needed

form_tag(form_action_url(:protocol => 'https'))

The difference being, apparently, that form_action_path generates something like "/path/to/action" and form_action_url generates "http://url.com/path/to/action."

Upvotes: 2

jefflunt
jefflunt

Reputation: 33954

You can use something like SSL_Requirement with your create/update actions. It seems SSL_Requirement is older (not that it needs to be updated, it's not terribly complicated), but there may be a newer gem/plugin that people prefer now.

Upvotes: 0

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