Get full URL of blog post

[LandonSchropp]

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I couldn't find anything in the docs. Is it possible to get the full URL of an article, including the domain? For example, when I call article.url, I'd like to see http://landonschropp.com/blog/writing-better-media-queries-with-sass/. Instead, I get /blog/writing-better-media-queries-with-sass/.

[lolmaus]

Middleman does not know where you're going to host the resulting static site.

You'll have to put the base URL into a configuration variable and write a custom helper that produces an absolute URL.

Here's mine, i needed absolute URLs it to produce email templates:

config.rb

@images_path = 'https://user.github.io/project/__assets/images/'

helpers/custom_image_url.rb

def custom_image_tag(img)
  image_path = img.clone

  if environment == :build
    image_path = @images_path + image_path
  end

  image_tag image_path
end

You can adapt this code to your needs.

[LandonSchropp]

Thanks for the quick reply! That definitely solves my problem for now.

What do you think about taking a Rails approach to this problem in the long term? You could have a configuration variable for the URL domain and have differentiated url and path methods? My use case for this is I'm using the BlogPosting microdata format, which requires a full URL, but I'd like for the rest of my URLs on the site to be paths.

[tdreyno]

@LandonSchropp I understand the use-case, but it seems like a much better feature for a per-project helper than a core function.