An example of using URI in Ruby

uri_example.rb

require 'uri'
require 'open-uri'

google_url = "http://google.com/"

url = URI.parse(google_url)

# Get the hostname
puts "The hostname is #{url.hostname}"

# Get the path
puts "The path is #{url.path}"

# Split the url
puts URI.split(google_url).inspect

# Open a webpage
google_home = open(google_url).read
puts "Welcome to #{google_url} !!"
puts
puts google_home