Ruby: How to turn a hash into HTTP parameters?

Question

That is pretty easy with a plain hash like

{:a => \"a\", :b => \"b\"} 

which would translate into

\"a=a&b=b\"
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Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I just wanted to post this bit of code as I could not find a simple gem to do just this task for me.

module QueryParams

  def self.encode(value, key = nil)
    case value
    when Hash  then value.map { |k,v| encode(v, append_key(key,k)) }.join('&')
    when Array then value.map { |v| encode(v, "#{key}[]") }.join('&')
    when nil   then ''
    else            
      "#{key}=#{CGI.escape(value.to_s)}" 
    end
  end

  private

  def self.append_key(root_key, key)
    root_key.nil? ? key : "#{root_key}[#{key.to_s}]"
  end
end

Rolled up as gem here: https://github.com/simen/queryparams