Ruby on Rails

On 08/28/2014 08:14 AM, Dave Castellano wrote:
> The hyperlink below is being evaluated to
> "questions/www.somewhere.com":
>
> q = eval(question) # Converts (evaluates) the question string from
> the database back into code.
>
> question =" ... from a light source is equal to the <a
> href='www.somewhere.com'>index of refraction</a> (n) divided by the
> distance (in meters) of the light rays..."
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to why "questions" is
> being prepended to the route and how to avoid that from happening.

This is a basic HTML problem, not a Rails one.

Your link is a relative link to the file "www.somewhere.com" in the
current directory, *not* a link to the site www.somewhere.com. You need
an explicit method, e.g.:

<a href='http://www.somewhere.com/'>

~Chris
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