Bug #15276: URI.join behaviour is unintuitive

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.5.1p57
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN
• Tags: lib, notbug

[vihai (Daniele Orlandi)]

Hello,

I've been bitten by issue #10075, I actually expected a different behaviour from ::join. It doesn't IMHO resepect the "principle of least suprise".

I agree with avdi who suggests to deprecate ::join and replace it with a more intuitive name, while adding another method that performs path concatenation (which I think it is a more common scenario).

Please consider this,
Thank you!

[shevegen (Robert A. Heiler)]

What name would you suggest? Avdi mentioned the name #merge_path - is this the name
that you suggest? (I ask specifically because finding a good name is not always
easy. And in the proposal no specific name was mentioned as such.)

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Related to Bug #6057: URI - Nonsensical Behavior added

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed