In reviewing the specs for Samvear on my machine, URI.decode (an alias for URI.escape) is marked as obsolete. Calling URI.decode sends quite a bit of chatter to stdour (or stderr). The recommendation is included below:
This method is obsolete and should not be used. Instead, use CGI.unescape, URI.decode_www_form or URI.decode_www_form_component depending on your specific use case.
https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.7.1/libdoc/uri/rdoc/URI/Escape.html