Almost 1 hour of digging before i gave up and built this…
Update: thanks for the improvement @ Will Sulzer
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# https://grosser.it/2008/11/24/rails-transform-path-to-url
def path_to_url(path)
"#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port.sub(/:80$/,"")}/#{path.sub(/^\//,"")}"
end
Michael Grosser, the Blog 
Hmn,
url_for for full path didn’t do the job?
http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/Base/url_for
nope, not enough when you got /xy/something (for example an image) and want to generate the url for it
url_for(‘/path’) only generates ‘/path’ kind of disappointing
Here’s mine. This works in Rails 3.1. I needed to use this method because if was needed a full path to assets, and Rails would only give me the relative paths, i.e. image_path(‘foo’), video_path(‘bar’). It’s too bad that they don’t support image_url, etc..
def path_to_url(path)
“#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port}#{path}”
end
Hello, great solution! But… Why you can’t just puts _url instead of _path
That would work for cases where you have a xxx_path, but not when you have some kind of path coming in from somewhere and you need to turn it into an url
My (shorter) version:
def path_to_url(path)
“#{root_url}#{path}”
end