How to convert a Hash to a URL parameter string? (i.e. rea

Rails
1

Hi,

I’ve been trying to find out if there is already a Rails or Ruby method
to
convert a Hash to a URL parameter string? Does one exist?

e.g.
from { “controller”=>“donate”, “amt”=>“400.00” }
to controller=donate&amt=400.00

i.e. ready to be appended to the end of a URI for a HTTP POST request

Thanks
Greg

2

Just add them into the options for the url_for and you should be in
business. No need to do the conversion first. However, looking at your
example. It seems like donate should be a method of a controller and not
the
controller itself. You’d probably be better off with a Contributions
controller [which could provide an index of people who have donated
previously as well as other methods] and just using a CRUDdy new/create
kind
of methodology. At any rate, adding :amt => “400.00” to the options
parameter in url_for will place amt as a parameter in the url.

RSL

3

My scenario was actually a manual HTTP request (see below). I was
interested in whether there is an existing ruby or rails method to
convert
the hash to a string (in the form of a URL parameter string)? I know I
can
do this manually in ruby quite readily, but just very curious to know
whether there is a method already there to do it in one hit?

postData = {"cc"=>"USD", "st"=>"Completed" }   #<=== Doesn't seem to

work, needs to be a string
responseString = “”
Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |request|
responseString = request.post(uri.path, postData).body
end

Greg