Using routes in models in Ruby on Rails

Posted on 13 July 2008

To use routes in your model just add the following to config/environment.rb...

class ActiveRecord::Base
 include ActionController::UrlWriter

 host = case ENV['RAILS_ENV']
 when "production"
   "yourlivedomain.com"
 when "development"
   "localhost:3000"
 end
 default_url_options[:host] = host
end

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• And there goes proper MVC encapsulation flying out of the window…

  Eduardo at 14 Jul 08 at 08:39

• Indeed. But there are always edge cases.

  Paul at 14 Jul 08 at 09:16

• I agree with Eduardo. If you need to use routes from your model then you probably have your application designed bad way.

  Sickill at 28 Jul 08 at 03:07

• I agree with Eduardo as well.

  Zach Dennis at 17 Oct 08 at 17:13

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