Removing a sequence of characters from strings

Question

In rails I simply want to remove 'http://' or 'https://' from a string if they are present. Currently I'm achieving this with the below code:

install_url.delete('http://').delete('https://')

I feel like this might not be the best way to do it. Are there any better suggestions?

Thank you!

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

install_url.gsub(/https?:\/\//, '')

Answer 2

You can use regular expressions:

install_url.sub(/^http[s]?:\/\//, '')