affirmative

Gem to test if a String is Affirmative

Installation

Via RubyGems:

$ gem install affirmative

Then, within your script:

require 'affirmative'
...

> "y".affirmative?
=> true

> "  Yes\n".affirmative?
=> true

> "No".affirmative?
=> false

> "Potato".affirmative?
=> false

Typical usage in a script:

print "Confirm (y/n): "
do_thing if gets.affirmative?