Regex to check alphanumeric string in ruby

Question

I am trying to validate strings in ruby. Any string which contains spaces,under scores or any special char should fail validation. The valid string should contain only chars a-z

Answer 1

You can just check if a special character is present in the string.

def validate str
 chars = ('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a + (0..9).to_a
 str.chars.detect {|ch| !chars.include?(ch)}.nil?
end

Result:

irb(main):005:0> validate "hello"
=> true
irb(main):006:0> validate "_90 "
=> false