How do I split a URL into 2 parts in Ruby?

Question

I have a ruby script that downloads URLs from an RSS server and then downloads the files at those URLs.

I need to split the URL into 2 components like so -

http://www.website.com/dir1/dir2/file.txt
-->   'www.website.com'    and    'dir1/dir2/file.txt'

I'm struggling to come up with a way to do this. I've been playing with regular expressions but nothing has worked. How would others go about doing this?

Answer 1

Use the URI library.

require 'uri'
u = URI.parse("http://www.website.com/dir1/dir2/file.txt")
u.host
# => "www.website.com"
u.path
# => "/dir1/dir2/file.txt"

Answer 2

In a simple way , you could use split .

split('/')[2]