Regeng or regular english, is a gem aimed to make regular expressions a bit more noob friendly.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'regeng'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install regeng
require 'regeng'
=> true
Regeng.new 'any characters except e through z at start of string'
=> /\A[^e-z]+/More examples in the Documentation
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/LucHighwalker/regeng.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.