utf 8 - Rails: How to send a http get request with UTF-8 encoding -

i'm trying use external api information

  address=self.address   response = httparty.get("http://api.map.baidu.com/geocoder/v2/?address=#{address}&output=json&ak=5dfe24c4762c0370324d273bc231f45a")   decode_response =  activesupport::json.decode(response) 

however, address in chinese, need convert utf-8 code, if not i'll uri::invalidurierror (bad uri(is not uri?): how it?

i tried address=self.address.force_encoding('utf-8'), not work, maybe should use other method instead?

update:

  uri = "http://api.map.baidu.com/geocoder/v2/?address=#{address}&output=json&ak=5dfe24c4762c0370324d273bc231f45a"   encoded_uri = uri::encode(uri)   response = httparty.get(encoded_uri)   decode_response =  activesupport::json.decode(response)   self.latitude = decode_response['result']['location']['lat'] 

and can't convert httparty::response string. what's wrong it?

i found here, think i'll need tell httparty explicityly parse json?

you save file 'geo.rb' , run ruby geo.rb

require 'uri' require 'httparty'  address = "中国上海" uri = "http://api.map.baidu.com/geocoder/v2/?address=#{address}&output=json&ak=5dfe24c4762c0370324d273bc231f45a" encoded_uri = uri::encode uri puts httparty.get(encoded_uri)