Support for the Ruby 2.4 series has ended. See here for reference.
URI is a module providing classes to handle Uniform Resource Identifiers (RFC2396)
Uniform handling of handling URIs
Flexibility to introduce custom URI schemes
Flexibility to have an alternate URI::Parser (or just different patterns and regexp's)
require 'uri'
uri = URI("http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413")
#=> #<URI::HTTP:0x00000000b14880
      URL:http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413>
uri.scheme
#=> "http"
uri.host
#=> "foo.com"
uri.path
#=> "/posts"
uri.query
#=> "id=30&limit=5"
uri.fragment
#=> "time=1305298413"
uri.to_s
#=> "http://foo.com/posts?id=30&limit=5#time=1305298413"
module URI
  class RSYNC < Generic
    DEFAULT_PORT = 873
  end
  @@schemes['RSYNC'] = RSYNC
end
#=> URI::RSYNC
URI.scheme_list
#=> {"FTP"=>URI::FTP, "HTTP"=>URI::HTTP, "HTTPS"=>URI::HTTPS,
     "LDAP"=>URI::LDAP, "LDAPS"=>URI::LDAPS, "MAILTO"=>URI::MailTo,
     "RSYNC"=>URI::RSYNC}
uri = URI("rsync://rsync.foo.com")
#=> #<URI::RSYNC:0x00000000f648c8 URL:rsync://rsync.foo.com>
A good place to view an RFC spec is www.ietf.org/rfc.html
Here is a list of all related RFC's.
URI::Generic (in uri/generic.rb)
URI::FTP - (in uri/ftp.rb)
URI::HTTP - (in uri/http.rb)
URI::HTTPS - (in uri/https.rb)
URI::LDAP - (in uri/ldap.rb)
URI::LDAPS - (in uri/ldaps.rb)
URI::MailTo - (in uri/mailto.rb)
URI::Parser - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::REGEXP - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::REGEXP::PATTERN - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::Util - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::Escape - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::Error - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::InvalidURIError - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::InvalidComponentError - (in uri/common.rb)
URI::BadURIError - (in uri/common.rb)
Akira Yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org>
Akira Yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org> Dmitry V. Sabanin <sdmitry@lrn.ru> Vincent Batts <vbatts@hashbangbash.com>
Copyright © 2001 akira yamada <akira@ruby-lang.org> You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same term as Ruby.
$Id: uri.rb 53141 2015-12-16 05:07:31Z naruse $
Decode URL-encoded form data from given str.
This decodes application/x-www-form-urlencoded data and returns array of key-value array.
This refers url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-urlencoded-parser , so this supports only &-separator, don't support ;-separator.
ary = URI.decode_www_form("a=1&a=2&b=3") p ary #=> [['a', '1'], ['a', '2'], ['b', '3']] p ary.assoc('a').last #=> '1' p ary.assoc('b').last #=> '3' p ary.rassoc('a').last #=> '2' p Hash[ary] # => {"a"=>"2", "b"=>"3"}
See URI.decode_www_form_component, URI.encode_www_form
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 454
def self.decode_www_form(str, enc=Encoding::UTF_8, separator: '&', use__charset_: false, isindex: false)
  raise ArgumentError, "the input of #{self.name}.#{__method__} must be ASCII only string" unless str.ascii_only?
  ary = []
  return ary if str.empty?
  enc = Encoding.find(enc)
  str.b.each_line(separator) do |string|
    string.chomp!(separator)
    key, sep, val = string.partition('=')
    if isindex
      if sep.empty?
        val = key
        key = ''
      end
      isindex = false
    end
    if use__charset_ and key == '_charset_' and e = get_encoding(val)
      enc = e
      use__charset_ = false
    end
    key.gsub!(/\+|%\h\h/, TBLDECWWWCOMP_)
    if val
      val.gsub!(/\+|%\h\h/, TBLDECWWWCOMP_)
    else
      val = ''
    end
    ary << [key, val]
  end
  ary.each do |k, v|
    k.force_encoding(enc)
    k.scrub!
    v.force_encoding(enc)
    v.scrub!
  end
  ary
end
             
            Decode given str of URL-encoded form data.
This decodes + to SP.
See URI.encode_www_form_component, URI.decode_www_form
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 386
def self.decode_www_form_component(str, enc=Encoding::UTF_8)
  raise ArgumentError, "invalid %-encoding (#{str})" if /%(?!\h\h)/ =~ str
  str.b.gsub(/\+|%\h\h/, TBLDECWWWCOMP_).force_encoding(enc)
end
             
            Generate URL-encoded form data from given enum.
This generates application/x-www-form-urlencoded data defined in HTML5 from given an Enumerable object.
This internally uses URI.encode_www_form_component(str).
This method doesn't convert the encoding of given items, so convert them before call this method if you want to send data as other than original encoding or mixed encoding data. (Strings which are encoded in an HTML5 ASCII incompatible encoding are converted to UTF-8.)
This method doesn't handle files. When you send a file, use multipart/form-data.
This refers url.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-urlencoded-serializer
URI.encode_www_form([["q", "ruby"], ["lang", "en"]]) #=> "q=ruby&lang=en" URI.encode_www_form("q" => "ruby", "lang" => "en") #=> "q=ruby&lang=en" URI.encode_www_form("q" => ["ruby", "perl"], "lang" => "en") #=> "q=ruby&q=perl&lang=en" URI.encode_www_form([["q", "ruby"], ["q", "perl"], ["lang", "en"]]) #=> "q=ruby&q=perl&lang=en"
See URI.encode_www_form_component, URI.decode_www_form
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 418
def self.encode_www_form(enum, enc=nil)
  enum.map do |k,v|
    if v.nil?
      encode_www_form_component(k, enc)
    elsif v.respond_to?(:to_ary)
      v.to_ary.map do |w|
        str = encode_www_form_component(k, enc)
        unless w.nil?
          str << '='
          str << encode_www_form_component(w, enc)
        end
      end.join('&')
    else
      str = encode_www_form_component(k, enc)
      str << '='
      str << encode_www_form_component(v, enc)
    end
  end.join('&')
end
             
            Encode given str to URL-encoded form data.
This method doesn't convert *, -, ., 0-9, A-Z, _, a-z, but does convert SP (ASCII space) to + and converts others to %XX.
If enc is given, convert str to the encoding before percent encoding.
This is an implementation of www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/forms.html#url-encoded-form-data
See URI.decode_www_form_component, URI.encode_www_form
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 368
def self.encode_www_form_component(str, enc=nil)
  str = str.to_s.dup
  if str.encoding != Encoding::ASCII_8BIT
    if enc && enc != Encoding::ASCII_8BIT
      str.encode!(Encoding::UTF_8, invalid: :replace, undef: :replace)
      str.encode!(enc, fallback: ->(x){"&#{x.ord};"})
    end
    str.force_encoding(Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
  end
  str.gsub!(/[^*\-.0-9A-Z_a-z]/, TBLENCWWWCOMP_)
  str.force_encoding(Encoding::US_ASCII)
end
             
            URI::extract(str[, schemes][,&blk])
str
String to extract URIs from.
schemes
Limit URI matching to a specific schemes.
Extracts URIs from a string. If block given, iterates through all matched URIs. Returns nil if block given or array with matches.
require "uri" URI.extract("text here http://foo.example.org/bla and here mailto:test@example.com and here also.") # => ["http://foo.example.com/bla", "mailto:test@example.com"]
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 296
def self.extract(str, schemes = nil, &block)
  warn "#{caller(1)[0]}: warning: URI.extract is obsolete" if $VERBOSE
  DEFAULT_PARSER.extract(str, schemes, &block)
end
             
            URI::join(str[, str, ...])
str
String(s) to work with, will be converted to RFC3986 URIs before merging.
Joins URIs.
require 'uri' p URI.join("http://example.com/","main.rbx") # => #<URI::HTTP:0x2022ac02 URL:http://example.com/main.rbx> p URI.join('http://example.com', 'foo') # => #<URI::HTTP:0x01ab80a0 URL:http://example.com/foo> p URI.join('http://example.com', '/foo', '/bar') # => #<URI::HTTP:0x01aaf0b0 URL:http://example.com/bar> p URI.join('http://example.com', '/foo', 'bar') # => #<URI::HTTP:0x801a92af0 URL:http://example.com/bar> p URI.join('http://example.com', '/foo/', 'bar') # => #<URI::HTTP:0x80135a3a0 URL:http://example.com/foo/bar>
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 268
def self.join(*str)
  RFC3986_PARSER.join(*str)
end
             
            URI::parse(uri_str)
uri_str
String with URI.
Creates one of the URI's subclasses instance from the string.
Raised if URI given is not a correct one.
require 'uri' uri = URI.parse("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") p uri # => #<URI::HTTP:0x202281be URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/> p uri.scheme # => "http" p uri.host # => "www.ruby-lang.org"
It's recommended to first ::escape the provided uri_str if there are any invalid URI characters.
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 230
def self.parse(uri)
  RFC3986_PARSER.parse(uri)
end
             
            URI::regexp([match_schemes])
match_schemes
Array of schemes. If given, resulting regexp matches to URIs whose scheme is one of the match_schemes.
Returns a Regexp object which matches to URI-like strings. The Regexp object returned by this method includes arbitrary number of capture group (parentheses). Never rely on it's number.
require 'uri' # extract first URI from html_string html_string.slice(URI.regexp) # remove ftp URIs html_string.sub(URI.regexp(['ftp']) # You should not rely on the number of parentheses html_string.scan(URI.regexp) do |*matches| p $& end
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 332
def self.regexp(schemes = nil)
  warn "#{caller(1)[0]}: warning: URI.regexp is obsolete" if $VERBOSE
  DEFAULT_PARSER.make_regexp(schemes)
end
             
            Returns a Hash of the defined schemes
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 140
def self.scheme_list
  @@schemes
end
             
            URI::split(uri)
uri
String with URI.
Splits the string on following parts and returns array with result:
* Scheme * Userinfo * Host * Port * Registry * Path * Opaque * Query * Fragment
require 'uri' p URI.split("http://www.ruby-lang.org/") # => ["http", nil, "www.ruby-lang.org", nil, nil, "/", nil, nil, nil]
 
               # File uri/common.rb, line 192
def self.split(uri)
  RFC3986_PARSER.split(uri)
end