From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T18:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Building querystrings with ruby

On 15/03/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>    require "cgi"
>    class Hash
>      def query_string
>        "?" << inject([]){|a,kv| a << [CGI.escape(kv.shift), CGI.escape(kv.shift)].join("=") }.join("&")
>      end
>    end

Now here's somewhere I can use the handy trick I learned yesterday:

"?" << inject([]){ |a,(k,v)| a << [CGI.escape(k),
CGI.escape(v)].join("=") }.join("&")

But this is shorter:

"?" << inject([]){ |a,kv| a << kv.map{ |e| CGI.escape(e) }.join("=") }.join("&")

And this is shorter still:

"?" << to_hash.map{ |kv| kv.map{ |e| CGI.escape(e) }.join("=") }.join("&")

Paul.