How do I URL-escape a string in Rails?
If I'm in an RHTML view in Rails, it is easy to URL-escape something:
<a href="/redirect?href=<%=u target %>">Foo</a>
How do I do this in a string? I'd like to do something like this:
<% redirect_href = "/redirect?#{url_escape target}&foo=bar&baz=some_other_stuff" -%>
<a href="<%= redirect_href =>">Foo</a>
This must be trivial, right?
Solution 1:
CGI.escape will do it:
<% redirect_href = "/redirect?#{CGI.escape target}&foo=bar&baz=some_other_stuff" -%>
<a href="<%= redirect_href =>">Foo</a>
Solution 2:
Rails (activesupport) defines Hash#to_param (aliased to Hash#to_query):
{foo: 'asd asdf', bar: '"<#$dfs'}.to_param
# => "bar=%22%3C%23%24dfs&foo=asd+asdf"
It's worth noting that it sorts query keys (for HTTP caching).
Hash#to_param also accepts optional namespace parameter:
{name: 'David', nationality: 'Danish'}.to_param('user')
# => "user[name]=David&user[nationality]=Danish"
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Hash.html#method-i-to_param