Externallink

Helper to detect external urls.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'externallink'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install externallink

Usage

This gem works out of the box for Rails applications and provides the following helpers.

external_url?

Checks if the given URL is external or not. Example (when the app domain is example.com):

external_url?("http://www.google.com") # => true
external_url?("/foo") # => false
external_url?("http://example.com/foo") # => false

internal_url?

The opposite behavior of external_url?

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/xarsh/externallink/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request