rack-noie6

rack-noie6 does everyone a favor: it shows the way out of your website to poor souls out there using Internet Explorer 6 (or a user configurable minimum).

Originally developed by juliocesar, sant0sk1 forked and gemified for easier distribution and wjessop added the minimum version option.

general usage

just

# from gemcutter (canonical)
gem sources --add http://gemcutter.org
gem install rack-noie6
# from GitHub (development)
gem sources --add http://gems.github.com
gem install sant0sk1-rack-noie6

require 'noie6'

and

use Rack::NoIE6, :redirect => '/noieplease.html'

the above will redirect to a page noieplease.html in your website. You can redirect to a URL as well, like so

use Rack::NoIE6, :redirect => 'http://slashdot.org'

or let the default kick in

use Rack::NoIE6

You can even specify a minimum version of IE like so

use Rack::NoIE6, :redirect => 'http://slashdot.org', :minimum => 6.0

Rails usage

inside environment.rb's Rails::Initializer.run

config.gem 'rack-noie6', :lib => 'noie6'
config.middleware.use "Rack::NoIE6"

Piece o' cake!

disclaimer

The default URL points to Microsoft's IE8 upgrade page.

license

MIT