urlencode

  • In Ruby, we use the CGI class to encode a URL. We first need to require the CGI library using require "cgi". This is similar to using require_once to include a class in PHP.

    To get the equivalent result of PHP’s urlencode function, we’ll use the CGI.escape class method.

    PHP

    $result = urlencode("Hello <b>there!</b>");
var_export($result);
// => 'Hello+%3Cb%3Ethere%21%3C%2Fb%3E'

    Ruby

    require 'cgi'
 
p CGI.escape("Hello <b>there!</b>")
# => "Hello+%3Cb%3Ethere%21%3C%2Fb%3E"

    see also

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