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Is there something in Ruby (in an existing gem?) that will take an HTML String, parse out a form, and return URI-encoded query string of the fields/values a la jQuery's form.serialize?
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0_input.html
<form>
<input type="text" name="post[title]" value="Some Title" />
<textarea name="post[body]">This is my post body</textarea>
</form>
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1_output.txt
post[title]=Some%20Title&post[body]=This%20is%20my%20post%20body
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jnicklas commented Feb 6, 2014 

html = Nokogiri::HTML("...")
params = Capybara::RackTest::Form.new(nil, html).params({})
Rack::Utils.build_nested_query(params) #=> yay!

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