Get Anchor value from url using Ruby

Question

I want to get anchor value from URL using ruby.

http://{My-Domain}/signin#recording

Want to get #recording value.

possible duplicate of [Can PHP read the hash portion of the URL?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940905/can-php-read-the-hash-portion-of-the-url) — Raj, Dec 12 '14 at 09:19
@Vucko Hashes aren't sent to the server, so the server-side language doesn't matter. I've edited the other question to make this clearer. — Martin Tournoij, Dec 12 '14 at 09:27
@emaillenin - it doesn't appear in this question that the URL comes from a browser request... — Uri Agassi, Dec 12 '14 at 09:30
`"http://{My-Domain}/signin#recording"[/.*#(\w+)/, 1]` => `"recording"`. Your question is too broad and have many possible answers. — Roman Kiselenko, Dec 12 '14 at 09:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '14 at 09:26

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You can use URI.parse to parse the URL, and then look for the attribute fragment:

require 'uri'

url = 'http://www.example.com/signin#recording'
uri = URI.parse url
uri.fragment
# => "recording"

answered Dec 12 '14 at 09:26

Uri Agassi

How to get complete url in ruby because request.original_url give url without anchor. – Azhar Malik Dec 12 '14 at 09:38
that's because the browser does not pass the anchor to the server - see the comments under your question... – Uri Agassi Dec 12 '14 at 09:46
@UriAgassi so I was right about my comment ;) – Raj Dec 12 '14 at 10:07
@emaillenin - doesn't change the fact the it wasn't apparent from the question - it could easily ask about URLs coming from other places - exactly the reason the attribute `fragment` exists in the first place :-P – Uri Agassi Dec 12 '14 at 10:10
But my assumption was based on the tag [ruby-on-rails], but you could have been right as well :) – Raj Dec 12 '14 at 13:21

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