Ruby equivalent to JavaScript’s encodeURIComponent that produces identical output?

Question

Hi is there an equivalent ruby method to JavaScript encodeURIComponent method? i am using the URI.unescape(str) but it recognizes the "£" (after encodeURIComponent it becomes "%C2%A3") as a "?" sign. any solution's? thanks

Answer 1

URI.escape

Answer 2

URI.escape(foo, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]"))

found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2834034/how-do-i-raw-url-encode-decode-in-javascript-and-ruby-to-get-the-same-values-in-b

Answer 3

CGI.escape should escape correctly, except that spaces are escaped as +.

Note that URI.escape has been deprecated in Ruby 1.9.2...

There is a long discussion on ruby-core for those interested.