Extracting the anchor from a URL in ruby

Question

I looked through the documentation of the URI class in ruby but couldn't find a way to extract the anchor (HTML) from the instance. For example, in

http://example.com/index.php?q=something#anchor

I would like to get the anchor text. Trivial solution is to manipulate the text with regular expressions but if there is some method for it, then it's much better.

Answer 1

The URI module provides a fragment attribute. e.g:

>> uri = URI("http://example.com/index.php?q=something#anchor")
>> uri.fragment
=> "anchor"