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

I do not have enough reputation to comment, so I will answer instead.

Use of ===, as suggested by viljar, is advised against in the Ruby Style Guide and will cause Rubocop complaints (under default rules).

I find the most readable way to be:

def match?(string)
  !(string =~ /something/i).nil?
end