Ruby code to extract host from URL string

Question

I'm looking for a method to reliably extract the host name from a URL string in Ruby.

e.g. http://www.mglenn.com/directory = www.mglenn.com OR http://www.mglenn.com?param=x = www.mglenn.com

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

require 'uri'  myUri = URI.parse( 'http://www.mglenn.com/directory' ) print myUri.host # =>  www.mglenn.com 

Answer 2

URI("http://www.mglenn.com/directory").host