Ruby: What's the proper syntax for a boolean regex method?

Question

What is the proper syntax for a method that checks a string for a pattern, and returns true or false if the regex matches?

Basic idea:

def has_regex?(str         


        

Answer 1

Adding this to the String class makes it pretty simple to use:

   class String
      def match?(regex)
          !!self.match(regex)
      end
   end

I added it to Rails initializer (RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers) and you can call directly from the string:

"Something special!".match?(/something/i) #=> true 
"Somethin' special!".match?(/something/i) #=> false