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

If you want the put the pattern in a method, you can just do

def has_my_pattern(st)
    st =~ /pattern/
end

Or, perhaps better, put the pattern in a class variable instead?