New to Ruby from CF

[Ben V.]

I'm new to Ruby and Rails from Coldfusion, and I am already finding how
much easier Ruby programming is, yet one thing that I haven't quite
figured out how to do in Ruby is to test whether for example, a contains
b. In Coldfusion we did <cfif a CONTAINS b>, but I can't seem to find a
CONTAINS() function or operator in Ruby. What would be the Ruby
equivalent of the code above? And How would I test if one var contains
another, or another string? Thanks for your help and time.

 

[Phillip Hutchings]

I'm new to Ruby and Rails from Coldfusion, and I am already finding how
much easier Ruby programming is, yet one thing that I haven't quite
figured out how to do in Ruby is to test whether for example, a contains
b. In Coldfusion we did <cfif a CONTAINS b>, but I can't seem to find a
CONTAINS() function or operator in Ruby. What would be the Ruby
equivalent of the code above? And How would I test if one var contains
another, or another string? Thanks for your help and time.

if a.include? b

Check the documentation for Array and Hash.

 

[Justin Collins]

if a.include? b

Check the documentation for Array and Hash.

Also works for strings, if that's what you meant. (Don't know Coldfusion).

-Justin

 

[Ben V.]

Thanks, sorry for the stupid question, but hopefully I'll get the hang
of Ruby. You would consider CF as a relatively easy language, but it's
nothing like Ruby.