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I want to retrieve the actual, encoded URL value for a page I visit in my Rails application.

So, if I visit http://domain.com/dir/test%2Bpath, I should get the value "http://domain.com/dir/test%2Bpath" and NOT "http://domain.com/dir/test+path".

Is there ANY way to do this? I've inspected the Request object, Googled...nothing.

Chad Johnson
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In my system I can use request.url and request.path:

(rdb:1) request.url
"http://localhost:3000/test2/path/a%2Bb"
(rdb:1) request.path
"/test2/path/a%2Bb"

This should work in the controller or the view.

Michael Slade
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You can use ruby helper method 

URI.unescape('http://domain.com/dir/test%2Bpath')
naren
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  • I don't want to use any helpers; I want to retrieve the value directly from Request (or whatever) without any alteration from me, and I want that value to be encoded. – Chad Johnson Apr 27 '12 at 01:56