How to remove random excess of slashes from url?

Question

How to remove random excess of slashes from url or just validate it?

For example,

valid statements:

http://domain.com/url/url2

https://domain.com/url/url2

www.domain.com/url/url2

invalid statements:

http://domain.com//url/url2

https://domain.com/////url/url2

www.domain.com/url/////////url2

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

Use regular expressions:

require 'uri'
url = URI.parse('https://domain.com/////url/url2')
url.path.gsub! %r{/+}, '/'
p url.to_s