diff --git a/config/fastly/snippets/bad_bot_detection.vcl b/config/fastly/snippets/bad_bot_detection.vcl
index 1c9d0dc01..1d419ac52 100644
--- a/config/fastly/snippets/bad_bot_detection.vcl
+++ b/config/fastly/snippets/bad_bot_detection.vcl
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ sub vcl_recv {
     || req.http.user-agent == "RSurf15a 51"
     || req.http.user-agent == "RSurf15a 81"
     # Block Ruby bots unless they're interacting with the API
-    || (req.http.user-agent == "Ruby" && !(req.http.url ~ "^/api"))
+    || (req.http.user-agent == "Ruby" && !(req.url ~ "^/api"))
     || req.http.user-agent == "searchbot admin@google.com"
     || req.http.user-agent == "ShablastBot 1.0"
     || req.http.user-agent == "snap.com beta crawler v0"