Add forward slash to LITERAL_REGEX #7464
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The forward slash character has no special meaning when it appears in a regex. This will let
Performance/StartWith
andPerformance/EndWith
correct code like the following:To:
I noticed this problem thanks to @eregon's comment here: rails/rails#37504 (comment)
LITERAL_REGEX
is only used in RuboCop Performance, so I couldn't add a test to demonstrate the new behaviour. Arguably the constant should be defined there instead, but removing it from RuboCop would introduce an incompatibility with all existing versions of RuboCop Performance. I opted to update the constant in-place; let me know if another approach is preferable.Before submitting the PR make sure the following are checked:
[Fix #issue-number]
(if the related issue exists).master
(if not - rebase it).bundle exec rake default
. It executes all tests and RuboCop for itself, and generates the documentation.