From: Skave Rat <skaverat@...>
Date: 2008-08-01T21:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with "starts_with?"

matt neuburg wrote:
> Skave Rat <skaverat@rf-linux.org> wrote:
> 
>> How can I get this code to work in my classes?
>> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/CoreExtensions/String/
>> StartsEndsWith.html
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'activesupport'
> include ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String
> 
> puts "howdy".starts_with?("ho")
> 
> Is that the kind of thing you mean? m.

hm, yea, but the problem is it's not rails but simple ruby.
So I'd just like to add

def starts_with?(prefix)
  prefix = prefix.to_s
  self[0, prefix.length] == prefix
end

to my code where I can use it on all strings inside.
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