root_url defaulting to subdomain rather than full host name

[mtrisoline]

The application keeps defaulting to the subdomain name rather than the full host name when sending email and on the 'Back to the Dashboard' button. This also happens when telling the application to enforce ssl. This is happening when the HOST in the production.rb environment is set to subdomain.domain.com. I have been trying to find in the code where the 'root_url' is being defined. I am fairly new to rails development and support and we really like the simplicity of Bennett and as my ruby/rails skills get deeper I would like to help contribute functionality to the project. Is there somewhere to set the root URL or get it to pull the FQDN? I have bennett being proxied back to from nginx so I can use HTTPS and the urls that are defaulting to the subdomain are also defaulting to http rather than https

[joelcogen]

Hi,

root_url is a Rails helper, and should absolutely not be changed.

Can you paste the exact line from production.rb ?

[mtrisoline]

In the production.rb I set the following

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
HOST = 'bennett.mydomain.com'
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = {
  :host => HOST
}

For the Back to Dashboard button, I updated the haml to use the following which fixed the problem of it just linking back to the subdomain.

= link_to "/", :class => "btn pull-right" do
  Back

For the SSL I just put a hard enforce on it in Nginx.