Rails: How to provide a public link in a mail

Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave Show archive.org snapshot file.

Now we want to send the link to the contract in a mail. For this use case join the root_url with the public contract path in the mailer view:

Plain text email

URI.join(root_url, @user.contract.url)

HTML email

link_to('Show contract', URI.join(root_url, @user.contract.url).to_s)

Note: You need to follow http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#generating-urls-in-action-mailer-views Show archive.org snapshot or Make ActionMailer use the current request host and protocol for URL generation to have the correct path and port. If you don't store the files local but remote (e.g. S3) the url will already include the full url.