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John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 1886

matching strings with simple regex

In a Rails app I need to identify certain URLs paths that are expressed in this form:

paths = ['/a/*/b/c', '/f/*']

I'm in a middleware and I have access to the path, what kind of conditional should I write to check if the current URL path has a match with an entry in the provided array?

  path = Rack::Request.new(env).path
  included = paths.any? { |s| path.include?(s) }

this only checks for inclusion, but now wildcards have arrived.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 52

Answers (1)

falsetru
falsetru

Reputation: 369444

You can convert paths into regular expression patterns:

paths = ['/a/*/b/c', '/f/*']

path = Rack::Request.new(env).path
patterns = paths.map { |path| Regexp.new path.gsub(/\*/, '[^/]+') }
    # Convert `*` to `[^/]+` to match any non-`/` characters. 
included = patterns.any? { |s| path =~ s }

Upvotes: 2

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