How do I test whether a string would match a glob in Ruby?

Question

Without hitting the filesystem, is it possible to see whether the glob "foo*" would match "food" in Ruby?

Background: one of my scripts produce files, and I'd like to unit test that other scripts would be able to detect such files with their current glob.

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible using the fnmatch method:

File.fnmatch("foo*", "food") #=> true