Question

Is there an equivalent to PHP’s urlencode in Ruby on Rails 2.3.5? (It encodes a string to be used in a query part of a URL)
I googled it but all the answers seem to date back to before 2006 and seems dates.
This is what I found. It seems a bit abnormal to call CGI::escape in a view.

Is there an equivalent helper function?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe the u helper method is what you’re looking for:

<%=u "URL ENCODE <p>ME</p>" %>

This uses the method ERB::Util.url_encode, which is aliased to u.

You can find the documentation for this method here: http://rdoc.info/stdlib/erb/1.8.7/ERB/Util:url_encode.