Ruby: URI::InvalidURIError (URI must be ascii only

Question

require \'uri\'
uri = URI.parse \'http://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Оуэн-Мэтьюс.jpg\'

The browsers have no problem with

Answer 1

What do you think about:

url = URI.escape(url) unless url.ascii_only?
URI.parse(url)

Answer 2

The answer just came to me by asking myself the question:

begin
  uri = URI.parse(url)
rescue URI::InvalidURIError
  uri = URI.parse(URI.escape(url))
end

Answer 3

I had the same error:

Ruby: URI::InvalidURIError (URI must be ascii only

with my code, but my bug was that it was an old project and the i18n was outdated. It was solved, with a simple:

bundle update