URI::InvalidURIError (bad URI(is not URI?): ):

Question

I am trying to implement an OAuth provider in Rails 3. When I try to authorize a client app I get this error. I am using the RESTful auth plugin and pelles OAuth-plugin. When I was testing via the Rails console and getting this error I thought that I simply needed to encode the URLs but I get the same error when testing in browser so I am not sure what is wrong.

Answer 1

I got into trouble with URI.split (returning this error), I don't know if this helps you, but I will post here some warnings for also someone else having this error:

1. Check your url is not nil, and it's a valid one.
2. Do URI.encode(url) before URI.parse (to avoid special characters)
3. Do strip to the string you pass to URI.parse (to avoid leading and trailing whitespaces).

All in one:

uri = URI.parse(URI.encode(url.strip)) 

Related resource: http://www.practicalguile.com/2007/09/15/raising-uriinvalidurierror-from-a-perfectly-valid-uri/

Answer 2

You can also use this alternative URI gem: https://github.com/sporkmonger/addressable

There is no such problems with it.

Very native, just add namespace in your code after installing the gem

Addressable::URI