Issue #21346 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto). I don't think other candidates are better. Probably typical usage `str.ensure_suffix(".rb")` helps you understand the behavior. Matz. ---------------------------------------- Feature #21346: Introduce `String#ensure_suffix` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21346#change-113984 * Author: matheusrich (Matheus Richard) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- ## Problem Ensuring a string has a specific suffix or prefix is a common operation in many applications. Bundler itself uses it: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/d409ec8b5fc647fabe30e37e17cd1ea857... Here are [GitHub search](https://github.com/search) queries that might find this pattern in other places: 1. for Ruby: `/end(?:s)?_with\?\(['"].*['"]\) \?/ lang:ruby -is:fork` 1. for Crystal (a language very similar to Ruby): `/ends_with\?\(['"].*['"]\) \?/ lang:crystal -is:fork` ## Suggested solution I believe Ruby would benefit from having a first-class method for this purpose. I suggest the `String#ensure_suffix` and `String#ensure_prefix` methods. I think these names are intuitive enough (here are 2 examples of people using `ensure` for this purpose ([1](https://github.com/boltops-tools/ufo/blob/796104fdb89163d09a58fad42add697923...), [2](https://github.com/mumuki/mumuki-domain/blob/6194089d82b1a0c8805ecba98e006de...))). I've gone ahead and implemented `String#ensure_suffix` in a [pull request](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/13366) but the suggested behavior is this: ```rb "Hell".ensure_suffix("o!") # => "Hello!" "Hello!".ensure_suffix("o!") # => "Hello!" s = "Hello!" s.ensure_suffix("!").equal?(s) # => true # returns same object if already suffixed ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/