Added Hash#to_query to turn a hash of values into a form-encoded query string [Nicholas Seckar]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@6038 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
index 83054cde93..74e23bd884 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 require 'date'
 require 'xml_simple'
+require 'cgi'
+
+# Extensions needed for Hash#to_query
+class Object
+  def to_param #:nodoc:
+    to_s
+  end
+
+  def to_query(key) #:nodoc:
+    "#{key}=#{CGI.escape(to_param)}"
+  end
+end
+
+class Array
+  def to_query(key) #:nodoc:
+    collect { |value| value.to_query("#{key}[]") } * '&'
+  end
+end
 
 module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
   module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
@@ -27,6 +45,12 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
           klass.extend(ClassMethods)
         end
 
+        def to_query(namespace = nil)
+          collect do |key, value|
+            value.to_query(namespace ? "#{namespace}[#{key}]" : key)
+          end * '&'
+        end
+
         def to_xml(options = {})
           options[:indent] ||= 2
           options.reverse_merge!({ :builder => Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => options[:indent]),