I’m looking for a library or extension that enables ruby to work with IRIs, which are URLs that contain special characters like Umlauts ( ü,ö and friends ). I’m trying to build a webscraper, and that seems to be the only point that’s bothering me.
I’ve tried some quick hacks to resolve the problem, but I’d feel better if there was a tested and proven library for doing the same thing.
Thanks already for helping me!
moritz
Addressable is a (mostly) API-compatible replacement for the
URIstandard library which supports IRIs among other things.