Get substring after the first = symbol in Ruby

Question

Purely out of curiosity, is there a more elegant way to simply get the substring after the first = symbol in a string? The following works to give back name=b

Answer 1

Not exactly .after, but quite close to:

string.partition('=').last

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-partition