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Asked: 2026-05-27T11:12:32+00:00

Not sure how to do this in Ruby/Rails only thing I could come up

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Not sure how to do this in Ruby/Rails only thing I could come up with is gsub. Which is giving me an undefined method.

What I am doing is via jQuery $.post is passing data to jRuby. My problem is, some browsers (most) are converting @ to %40, and , to %2C which is throwing a wrench in my works. So I want to catch specific ones to covert them to what they are supposed to be literally when “decoded”.

I know this is a novice question, and I am almost positive the answer has to be on the web somewhere. But as I said I keep coming up on pages that suggest regex (which i want to avoid, and am not versed well with). Or others that suggest “gsub”.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your string is URL encoded. Try to use CGI::unescape:

    require 'cgi'
CGI::unescape('%40') # => "@"
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