Question

I want to do something like

assert_match /blah blah blah #{@user}/, @some_text

but I’m not having any luck with it working.

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

That is the correct way to insert a variable into a regex:

irb(main):001:0> a='Hi'
=> "Hi"
irb(main):002:0> b=/Not #{a}/
=> /Not Hi/

So your problem is likely that the assert is failing because of a bad match. Check the value of @user and @some_text and try http://rubular.com to come up with a matching regexp