How do I safely join relative url segments?

Question

I\'m trying to find a robust method of joining partial url path segments together. Is there a quick way to do this?

I tried the following:

puts URI::         


        

Answer 1

I improved @Maximo Mussini's script to make it works gracefully:

SmartURI.join('http://example.com/subpath', 'hello', query: { token: secret })
=> "http://example.com/subpath/hello?token=secret"

https://gist.github.com/zernel/0f10c71f5a9e044653c1a65c6c5ad697

require 'uri'

module SmartURI
  SEPARATOR = '/'

  def self.join(*paths, query: nil)
    paths = paths.compact.reject(&:empty?)
    last = paths.length - 1
    url = paths.each_with_index.map { |path, index|
      _expand(path, index, last)
    }.join
    if query.nil?
      return url
    elsif query.is_a? Hash
      return url + "?#{URI.encode_www_form(query.to_a)}"
    else
      raise "Unexpected input type for query: #{query}, it should be a hash."
    end
  end

  def self._expand(path, current, last)
    if path.starts_with?(SEPARATOR) && current != 0
      path = path[1..-1]
    end

    unless path.ends_with?(SEPARATOR) || current == last
      path = [path, SEPARATOR]
    end

    path
  end
end