Merge pull request rails#47735 from nirebu/nirebu/stop-root-string-allocation-in-helper

Do not allocate the first character when checking for relative paths

Author: byroot

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/routing/redirection.rb

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ def inspect
 
       private
         def relative_path?(path)
-          path && !path.empty? && path[0] != "/"
+          path && !path.empty? && !path.start_with?("/")
         end
 
         def escape(params)