For pure regex I prefer Nathan's approach myself, since I actually find it more readable.
One thing to note is that if your Regular Expressions get much more complicated than the date example, it might be a sign that you need a different tool. I've found Treetop really nice for those situations where Regexes get out of control. It's a real grammar, but with familiar regex syntax. http://treetop.rubyforge.org/ I hope to give a lightning talk on this very topic at the next Sydney RORO. Josh On 17/02/2010, at 4:10 PM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > Hi Paul, > > That's pretty neat if you prefer not to write regular expression syntax. If > you're fine with writing regular expressions and you just want to avoid > unwieldy blobs of confusion, you can use interpolation like so: > > http://gist.github.com/306322 > > The example is a rewrite of Jim's sample in the README. > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > On 17/02/2010, at 3:01 PM, Paul O'Keeffe wrote: >> After seeing some difficult to read, monolithic regular expressions in a >> presentation at last week's Ruby meetup in Brisbane, I promised that I would >> send a link to a better solution which I vaguely recalled. Here it is: >> >> http://github.com/jimweirich/re >> >> Jim Weirich library allows you to build up your regular expressions from >> smaller pieces, allowing each to be documented and tested separately. >> >> Cheers, Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
