Link is opened as a path instead of url in Ruby on Rails

Question

I am trying to code my portfolio in Ruby on Rails, and there is a problem when I want to set the link to my project.

Problem: I set the link like this <a href="www.example.org"target="_blank">Visit <%= project.title %></a> and instead of displaying it in a new window like www.example.org it is displayed as http://localhost:3000/www.example.org.

Sorry if it is a dumb question but I am a newbie. Lots of thanks for the answers.

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-11 22:13:00Z

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try <a href="http://www.example.org" target="_blank">...</a>

If you don't specify the scheme (e.g. http://) the browser will interpret the link as relative to the current domain.

answered Mar 11, 2016 at 22:13

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Kristóf Nagy Over a year ago

Thanks, it worked :) and huge thanks for the explanation also.

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