Ruby url encode
In one of the projects I’m working on I’ve been seeing the following all over the codebase.
CGI.escape(plaintext).gsub(“+”, “%20”).gsub(“%7E”, “~”)
At first you wonder why are they replacing “+” with “%20”.
Then you realize what they really wanted to use was “URI.encode”.
When using “URI.encode” you don’t need to gsub “+” with “%20”.
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| URI.encode("hello world") #=> "hello%20world" | |
| CGI.escape("hello world") #=> "hello+world" | |
| CGI.escape("Hello~world") #=> "Hello%7Eworld" | |
| URI.encode("Hello~world") #=> "Hello~world" |
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