regex_match about arel HOT 5 CLOSED

There's a matches_regexp method now (

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I just got a code spike working for doing that in PostgreSQL and MySQL. I hope to have proper code for that up in the stevecj/farel project soon.

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That would be really useful. I look forward to it :)

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Pull request are welcome, if you wan to discuss this feature more send an email to the Rails Core mailing list.

Closing since it is a feature request and we don't take feature requests in the issues tracker.

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lol "Arel is a private API" is Rails-speak for "We don't feel like documenting this, and then having to answer a flood of questions. But just between you and me, it's the only way to write a portable query"...

Thank you @jaredbeck. The amount of time i've wasted trying to track down documentation of Arel methods and forgetting to just read the class Predications! 🤌 che palle

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