• github.com/rschenk/simple_uri_template

Simple URI Template is a ridiculously simple URI Templating class.

It does not support all of the features of URI Templating (bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/) but it does support the simplest case well.

I created it because the two Ruby URI Template libraries I could find (github.com/sporkmonger/addressable and rubyforge.org/projects/uri-template/) were making my life more difficult than necessary. Both libraries required String values for both keys and values in the “expansion” Hash. How annoying.

• Allows both Strings and Symbols as expansion Hash keys

• Allows any object that responds to to_s as expansion values

• Consists of one gsub

• Only the simplest case of URI Templates, not all that fancy join stuff

template = SimpleURITemplate.new "http://github.com/{user}/{project}"

template.expand { :user => 'rschenk', :project => 'simple_uri_template' }
#=> "http://github.com/rschenk/simple_uri_template"

template_2 = SimpleURITemplate.new "http://google.com?q={query}"

template_2.expand { 'query' => 'Squibnocket Point tide chart' }
#=> "http://google.com?q=Squibnocket%20Point%20tide%20chart"

template_3 = SimpleURITemplate.new "http://example.com/page/{page_number}"

template_3.expand :page_number => 2
#=> "http://www.example.com/page/2"

• Nothin’ fancy

• sudo gem install rschenk-simple_uri_template

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