Open Url in ruby

To open a URL in Ruby, you can use the open-uri library. Here's a step-by-step explanation of how to do it:

  1. First, you need to require the open-uri library. This library provides methods for opening URLs.
require 'open-uri'
  1. Next, you can use the open method from open-uri to open a URL. It takes the URL as a parameter and returns an IO object that you can read from.
url = 'https://www.example.com'
open(url)
  1. If you want to read the contents of the URL, you can use the read method on the IO object returned by open.
url = 'https://www.example.com'
io_object = open(url)
content = io_object.read
  1. You can also specify additional options when opening a URL. For example, you can set the User-Agent header to specify the user agent of the request.
require 'open-uri'

url = 'https://www.example.com'
options = {
  'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3'
}

open(url, options)
  1. Finally, don't forget to close the IO object when you're done with it to free up system resources.
require 'open-uri'

url = 'https://www.example.com'
io_object = open(url)
# Do something with the content...
io_object.close

That's it! These steps should help you open a URL in Ruby using the open-uri library.