What is the difference between URI.escape and URI.encode in Ruby?

Question

I'm trying to figure out a difference between a URI.escape and URI.encode in Ruby.

Neither is doing what I want them to, which is to completely encode an URL.

For example I want http://my.web.com to be http%3A%2F%2Fmy%2Eweb%2Ecom

Answer 1

There is no difference. In Ruby 1.9.3 encode is simply an alias for escape.

[Edit] Note that those methods allow an "unsafe" descriptor of characters to encode:

URI.encode('http://my.web.com', /\W/) # => "http%3A%2F%2Fmy%2Eweb%2Ecom"

Thanks @muistooshort! =)