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

If you are in the context of a Faraday request, you can also just pass the params hash as the second argument and faraday takes care of making proper param URL part out of it:

faraday_instance.get(url, params_hsh)

Answer 2

I like using this gem:

https://rubygems.org/gems/php_http_build_query

Sample usage:

puts PHP.http_build_query({"a"=>"b","c"=>"d","e"=>[{"hello"=>"world","bah"=>"black"},{"hello"=>"world","bah"=>"black"}]})

# a=b&c=d&e%5B0%5D%5Bbah%5D=black&e%5B0%5D%5Bhello%5D=world&e%5B1%5D%5Bbah%5D=black&e%5B1%5D%5Bhello%5D=world