openURL broken on MAC

[DanRathbun]

@slbaumgartner

In particular if the URL string contains any spaces you must replace them with %20, the URL code for space. Other special characters could also need encoding, so print out the string to check.

@barry_milliken_droid See …

Module: URI::Escape (Ruby 2.5.5)

require 'uri'

# Default replacement:
path = URI.encode("file:///C:/Program Files/SketchUp/Some Subfolder/@!help.html")
#=> file:///C:/Program%20Files/SketchUp/Some%20Subfolder/@!help.html

# Specify a character set to replace as 2nd argument:
path = URI.encode(
  "file:///C:/Program Files/SketchUp/Some Subfolder/@!help.html",
  " !@" # ie: space, exclamation point, asterisk
)
#=> file:///C:/Program%20Files/SketchUp/Some%20Subfolder/%40%21help.html

NOTE: These methods have a note that they are obsolete and that there are alternatives like CGI.escape and URI.encode_www_form_component, but they both want to change spaces to “+” which might not work well. (I’ve no Mac so Steve’ll need to weight in.)