Ruby/Rails 3.1: Given a URL string, remove path

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Given any valid HTTP/HTTPS string, I would like to parse/transform it such that the end result is exactly the root of the string.

So given URLs:

http://foo.example.com:8080/whatsit/foo.bar?x=y
https://example.net/

I would like the results:

http://foo.example.com:8080/
https://example.net/

I found the documentation for URI::Parser not super approachable.

My initial, naïve solution would be a simple regex like:

/\A(https?:\/\/[^\/]+\/)/

(That is: Match up to the first slash after the protocol.)

Thoughts & solutions welcome. And apologies if this is a duplicate, but my search results weren't relevant.

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